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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As others have said, the implication in this article's title is silly... Surely an r&d phase start easily explains this

What I'm curious about is how you spend that much money in such little time? Was that money actually spent or just committed?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

$1900 per second is a hell of a burn rate for anything outside the US military

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

indeed... you'd expect big bucks on the D part... new factory, going for mass production, etc... and even then, you can only build so fast