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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "a425couple"  wrote in message news:e9HaQ.732802$9SBb.603648@fx18.iad...   
      
   On 7/6/25 00:32, Play_Chex Uribe Mand_R'ake wrote:   
   > a425couple wrote:   
   >> List of countries with highest military expenditures   
   >> This is a list of countries with highest military expenditures.   
   >>   
   >> Military spending by country   
   >> Rank    Country    Spending   
   >> (US$ bn)    % of GDP    % of global   
   >> spending   
   >> 1    United States    997.0    3.4    37.0   
      
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   A lot of US military spending goes into advancing our level of technology   
   which transfers to civilian industry. In the 80's I watched the general   
   quality of electronic circuit boards significantly improve as the board   
   vendors equipped themselves to meet military standards and then became able   
   to offer that higher quality and performance level for competitively priced   
   high density multilayer industrial and computer boards. Between 1980 and   
   1990 the reject rate decreased dramatically and the component density and   
   permissible operating speed jumped, mirrored in the CPU clock speed rise   
   which would be wasted if the memory bus on the board couldn't keep up. The   
   military digital radio developmental projects I worked on in the early 90's   
   led to compact cell phones. The concepts were older, just waiting for   
   enabling technology. The Army and Air Force have had secure global digital   
   wired and wireless communications networks since the 60's, I was a repair   
   tech for one.   
      
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