Although to be fair, I suppose, it’s not like someone wearing the lithium-battery-ballistic-plate special is gonna get shot in it anyways.
Hey, friendly fire is a thing. And when their buddies hit center mass, this piece of hardware will almost certainly take damage, and it will almost certainly be constructed in some bullshit iPhone anti repair way where almost any failure means you have to buy an entirely new one. Oh and while we’re at it, this is a good opportunity to copy Lockheed-Martin’s business model and contractually force the army to hire Anduril’s inhouse maintainance staff full time.
Hey, friendly fire is a thing. And when their buddies hit center mass, this piece of hardware will almost certainly take damage, and it will almost certainly be constructed in some bullshit iPhone anti repair way where almost any failure means you have to buy an entirely new one. Oh and while we’re at it, this is a good opportunity to copy Lockheed-Martin’s business model and contractually force the army to hire Anduril’s inhouse maintainance staff full time.
If that means Anduril engineers might potentially be in the line of fire, I’m all for it.