Ah it doesn't matter. When they state a billion for a unified anti-missile, anti-air network its BS, unless the system is built around dudes with AK-47's standing on hills shooting at stuff, while using the eyeball mark 5 radar set.
This is no different then the announcements to buy fighters, or ships, or boots or sleeping bags or guns or submarines. We'll do it poorly, we'll end up giving a bunch of money to Bombardier or a government friendly consulting or manufacturing firm like Bombardier or Lavalin who will massively under deliver, go way over budget, line their pockets, and then we'll have a senate hearing on why this failed so badly and we ended up with a anti-air system that was built in 1962 by Moldova.
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