Sure, they used billion dollar R&D projects to start a fire instead of say, twenty dollars in kerosene and a match.

Leaving aside the motivation and benefit questions…

 that seems like the most realistic part to me TBH, US military seems to quite like using it's toys 

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), using evidence posted in comments and own research if necessary.

If you want to discuss this series of markets in general there is a 

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