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In reply to the discussion: Still OK to be an old time peacenik around here? [View all]zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)I saw footage of a squad using a javelin to take out a tool shed (in which there was someone with an automatic weapon shooting at them). I asked a sergeant about that once. Why using an anti-tank weapon on a guy in a tool shed. His answer was illuminating. He said the goal wasn't just to take out the guy shooting. It was to destroy the shed so no one else could use it as a place to shoot at them.
That missile costs so much because it is designed to keep the guy shooting it alive so he can collect that pay check that is referenced. And it is designed to damage tanks that cost millions, so they can't shoot at the people firing the missile, or anyone else for that matter. The question isn't about the cost of weapon, or how much the people shooting at each other make in salary. The question is why are either of them shooting at each other.