Hypersonic Fever! With Chris Combs and Alex Hollings
The Hermeus Podcast
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The Deterrent Value of Defense Contractors
The United States has the advantage of, you know, I joke all the time, but brilliant engineering is not specific to the U.S., right? The Soviet Union didn't lose the space race because they ran out of ideas. You can solve problems as long as you're willing to invest in them. If it's in your own self interest, not to fight that fight, we all win. Yeah. Well, unlike how- This is why I got in trouble for suggesting that defense contractors make whatever profits they want in peacetime and no profits in wartime. And a lot of it is a turn. It's not all fairies and rainbows and kumbaya and the world
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