Crashes you say?

Can't remember the last time I had one of those.

As opposed to your anecdote of zero (you are obviously lying).

I live in a country in which 96% of the population would be considered "nutbar" anti gun extremists in the US and I've literally never heard anyone say such a thing. Ever.

What happens is this. Someone makes a product with a 0.1% reliability.

This is a fallacy.

What happens is it'll be incredibly obvious in tests (which you can afford to do with cheap missiles) if the reliability rate is that low. Why would it be?

Everything about it screams these are a new cheap, almost worthless missile. Particularly the use of the word 'hypersonic' to describe a missile that the US would never call hypersonic (we reserve that word for advanced, hard to hit hypersonic cruise missiles, not hypersonic ballistic missiles that are easy to destroy)

Quantity has a quality all of its own.

Never mind that hypersonic is not a military term, but an aerodynamic regime. You (or pretentiously "we") don't get to reserve that word.

Mass manufacture of cheap propeller cruise missiles is enough to overwhelm the production capacity of expensive interceptor missiles. And hypersonic ballistic missiles aren't easy to intercept, they are possible to intercept. But, much harder than low speed missiles, so you need fewer to overwhelm the stocks of interceptors.

The only human being Elon Musk cares about is himself. He is a profound narcissist.

Plus they hired a military contractor to waste money making stupid ugly delivery vans that are way way behind schedule

Those vehicles are everything the administration hates: they're much safer for vulnerable road users, e.g. pedestrians and cyclists and much more accessible than trucks, with low floor, easy entry and so on.

It irks many of the anti-gun people greatly that shooting is part of several Olympic sports.

I live in a country with strict gun control that a large of the population support, and I've literally never heard anyone say such a thing.

let me disappoint you, that was one of the dumbest pieces of crap that one could watch that year.

To counter from the authority of the dude: that's just, like, your opinion, man.

First they came for the amoral megacorporations run by lizard people!

Are you claiming that Zuck is a person (even if of the lizard variety)? I do not buy it.

THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON REACTOS?!

Next you'll tell me Haiku is still an option.

"If people start flocking to Linux"

Will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?!?

Slow down, sometimes it takes a few years, or 32 years in this case, to get something right.

You know of any "civilian grade" materials that won't burn up at hypersonic speeds?

Yes.

There's nothing magical about military grade stuff. The military is usually less buget constrained but not across the board.

There are "civillian grade" (whatever the fuck that means) cutting tools than can now hog out inconel while glowing orange continuously.

Also, you can you know just like buy a graphite crucible on ebay for cheap. Graphite sublimes at 3650 degrees C, which is higher than Tungsten's melting point of 3422 degrees.

I'm sure these will work reliably. Why didn't lockheed martin think of that?

Well, die-casting isn't really simpler. I mean sure you can die cast pot metal at low precision cheaply. Modern die castings which are large and complex use very expensive moulds, of the sort China is now well set up to produce, what with the manufacturing base. If Lockheed-Martin is selling them for 10 million a missile, they don't have the volume for die casting.

And what's the incentive for them to reduce the price?

I'm sure these will work reliably. Why didn't lockheed martin think of that?

If they are really that cheap, then even if the reliability is a risible 10%, they're still much cheaper.

You may wish to consider how far it is from Costa Rica to the US, and what is in between.

Or not!