• themurphy@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Fun fact about military-grade.

    It means jack shit. It’s a marketing buzz word, and should be illegal to use in commercial sense.

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      1 day ago

      It generally means the cheapest option with the simplest possible operation that does the job well enough.

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          1 day ago

          Same thing. It has to be barely thick enough to stop a predefined caliber weapon. And made of the cheapest possible material that still makes the armored vehicle mobile. Equipping armies is kind of expensive.

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              21 hours ago

              they overspend by millions

              Because everyone needs their cut.

              either way a military tank is better than a civilian grade sedan.

              Because they’re two different vehicles, not two different classes of product. If you compare military grade phones to civilian phones, the civilian would be better, and probably cheaper due to not having the buzzwords attached. And I bet a tank made by a private firm for non-government entities would in fact be better and cheaper than a military tank.