admittedly this isn't much money compared to the rest of what he's getting

but he was second only to clinton (and only Cruz matched him) for defense industry-originating donations in 2016

I'm just wonder which demographic do the CEO's and Boards belong to? @RedShocktrooper

why would they donate to candidates who they know are going to cut defense spending?

Out of genuine curiosity, does not make sense.

Who said they'd cut *their* spending

Obama also said he'd close Gitmo

And what about any of the above's ties to the Tech industry, if that has any relevance tied in with defense spending

*Reminder that as an example, Google Earth was founded by ex-CIA*

https://youtu.be/0XxYwWg7F8I tfw even the dem primaries are playing this song to bernie

@Gaylien Put away your Echoes, you're wrong this time.

Warden, KEnnedy, Calhoun, Novakovic, Hewson

And the Kennedy in question has no relation to the politicians.

@Three Bottle Barnes well, for one, these companies have fingers in other pies. And could stand to make a shitload of money off Bernie's other programs. Never mind piggybacking off his "revolution" to their own gains.

Raytheon is famous for the missiles, but it also handles drones and shit that can be easily turned to surveillance.

interesting

I wonder if the Unions for those industries play any roles in swinging the donations of the big wigs.

Hey, paying off someone so you can build a factory there isn't uncommon. Sanders was an F-35 supporter back when the F-35 was looking like it was going to get canned like the Comanche.

rip the comanche

was my favorite cnc generals copter

along with the crusader/paladin

man, a lot of army/military projects die in a ditch huhg

Im still waiting to be issued my XM8

I want my aurora bomber

XM8 also got cancelled a while back

yeah i know

the new shit is this 6.8 caliber thing they're doing a competition for

it's down to SIG, Textron, and General Dynamics.

they also started working on that caseless shit

way back in the day

RIP G11

Yesh, I hope that does well. Apparently, it's supposed to be like, in low rate numbers of 10,000 so, it doesn't have to immediately go in to mass production

THE FUTURE IS NOW

I remember the semi-declasified aurora project, mach 6

With caseless rounds or polymer rounds it should be a pretty big improvement, a massive weight reduction of almost like half is problably going to be pretty valuable

You can carry twice as many bullets or, the same amount but with something twice as powerful

I think going with something more powerful and aerodynamic is the right choice

litteraly faster than the anti air rockets

yes but I don't think the US can force it on the rest of NATO.

oh no of course not, it will just be a uh, low rate production thing, like 500,000 or so, just for all the deployed troops xD

France just bought HK416s, Britain just cleared HK to upgrade the L85 to the A3 model.