What did Tesla actually demonstrate?

Slavyangrad "off the wall" analysis

To great fanfare yesterday, Tesla showcased a flying car (which nobody will ever buy).

When I saw this clip my first thought was "that looks just like a giant Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV)" - like the ones used in the US Army's THAAD and US Navy's SM-3 systems (both of which have been almost completely expended during the conflict with Iran).

It's no secret that US ABM inventories are at critical levels, and the companies that make these missiles (Rayethon, Aerojet, Lockheed Martin etc) are not capable of manufacturing enough of them to maintain stockpiles, and have no means of rapidly expanding production to what is required, or any capacity to do so.

Furthermore, a single THAAD missile costs $15 million and the SM-3 unit cost ranges from $28 million to $40 million depending on the variant. There isn't enough money in the US or even the entire world to make enough of these exotics for the US to match the ever-growing ballistic missile threats of its adversaries.

Enter SpaceXAI/Tesla. Companies which have demonstrated capability in rapid development and deployment of new technologies, and which also have a proven track record of rapidly ramping up manufacturing capacity and doing so at the lowest possible cost. All things which traditional US military industrial complex companies have consistently proven themselves incapable of doing.

So here we have two companies which between them are the world's largest rocket manufacturer, control about 7% of the world's AI compute capacity, and represent one of the largest if not the largest industrial footprint in the USA.

And they just showcased the largest and heaviest EKV technology demonstrator ever made.

Tesla/SpaceXAI have everything required to rapidly develop and deliver unprecedented numbers of ABMs to US forces, and yesterday's flying car show was the job application. There's a lot of nervous cigarette smoking going on in military industrial complex boardrooms tonight.

But then again, what do I know - I'm just another NPC on Telegram.

@Slavyangrad