Wouldn't the brainpower and money devoted to high-tech weaponry be better spent developing models for social change that don't involve killing people?
Clearly, even with shrinking budgets, there's still money in high-tech weaponry, and Grumman can be a big plus.
Despite all the attention on high-tech weaponry in the 1980's, the military budget has been quietly shrinking since 1985.
One could also argue that Washington's confidence in high-tech weaponry represents a different kind of faith in magic.
In the long run, people and companies that push high-tech weaponry on impoverished nations do no favors for free enterprise or international security.
The remarkable part of this was that all the parts had been taken off the shelf from existing high-tech weaponry.
We have slashed the research and development money that gave us the high-tech weaponry that helped win the gulf war.
The military's biggest challenge is integrating its newly acquired high-tech weaponry into comprehensive battle plans.
There was no satellite dish on the roof, or racks of high-tech weaponry to play with.