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You can deploy a lot of $96 semi-effective hardware and improve it vs something that might be thousands or even tens or hundreds of thousands to deploy.
:-/
I mean, time will tell. To date, this particular iteration of technology has a 0% success rate in doing anything but farming clicks.
We got another scary 3d printer headline for dumbass politicians to use as justification for regulating them!
There isn't much there that can't be done with PVC and bent aluminum sheeting.
Hamas famously uses water pipes for their rockets (no idea about the propellant, payload or control systems though)
It also has a 0% failure rate in live strikes on targets.
Not according to Wayne Gretzky