One of the only funny parts of this is watching western politicians realize how hideously expensive their equipment really is to just keep running

Like yeah, maybe it is the perfect weapon - if you have an entire mechanical arm dedicated to it, the fuel for it, the parts for it when they inevitably break in a couple weeks, bridges that can support the insane weight of them, and so on

Turns out if money is no obstacle, you can have seemingly powerful weaponry - but you need all of that money for it to work.