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Silicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missile (www.ycombinator.com)
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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

especially in case of antiship missiles (and bunker busters) casing is single piece (or few-piece, welded) of forged low alloy steel that weights a fuckton and has to be reasonably strong. it's not just a particularly violent crafts class project that is bits of steel held up by epoxy, like what you can get away with in anti-air missile