Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers Dropping In

Should have seen this coming. Evidently someone in the Air Force saw Elon's proposal for intercontinental passenger transport and said, shoot, we could use that to deliver troops, but then realized that maybe they would be reaching too far and scaled back their vision to just delivering material. But if Elon gets his rocket flying (and I expect he will, it's just a matter of time, probably a year or two), the Air Force is going to want to use it to transport troops and Heinlein's prophecy will have come true. Okay, Heinlein had troops dropping from orbit, each in their own reentry pod, but we would be sending them into combat aboard a Starship. Yes, it's not a real Faster-Than-Light Starship, but that is what Elon has christened his rocket, so in a manner of speaking, it is a real starship.

Via Defence Blog