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Who paid for this? Just wondering...

I would guess taxpayers. But keep in mind the military has a huge budget for training exercises. I would guess they just cancel one of those and go blow this up instead.

I doubt it's costing us anything 'extra'. Also I'm not super enthusiastic about corporations being able to purchase airstrikes, or really any kind of military operation.

If someone's complaint is the military budget is too big, i'd agree. But this specific thing seems like it's in everyone's best interest, and a good use for resources we'd spend anyway.

I dunno. The military could really clean up if they created Airstrikes As A Service.

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I kinda feel like this is already a thing.

Its removing a hazard to navigation

The booster was probably already paid for (at $62M per launch I expect one cost at least $100M), specifically not to be recovered.

While it was possible to recover 100 million dollars from the ocean, gov decided to spend another million to destroy it :|

The booster was not worth $100M, it was worthless at that point. The bombs were likely free, already part of the training budget.

I would assume the USAF conducts regular training missions, which this easily could've been counted as one of.

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