the mantra should be:

"Small, cheap, fast, and out of centralized control"

"The trouble with highly engineered and expensive weapons is that they are all but impossible to produce rapidly or purchase in large numbers. The Army wants to field its own small drones — not for a few hundred dollars per unit, as in Ukraine, but a more sophisticated version of the same weapon […]

"The Pentagon reportedly expended about one quarter of its overall stockpile of high-altitude missile interceptors helping to defend Israel against Iran’s ballistic missiles earlier this year. And that was in a war that lasted just 12 days. Three years into the war in Ukraine, the United States […]

@stepheneb when I would get that clogging up my fuel line filter in my Triumph “back in the day” I knew it was time to get the fuel tank cleaned (I seem to remember high pressure steam, but that wuz a long time ago 😀)