Every decent army develops new weapons and defenses against other armies. Especially in war you want your people to be superior, kill and dominate the enemy - it’s as simple as that.

The web is often full of stories of secret weapons, military experiments and strange sightings of new deadly toys.

I think it’s only normal and actually the duty of your countries military to ‘waste’ some money on improved weapons and keep their development secret as long as they can. There is no such thing as a friendly war - but there is a mechanism called ‘the balance of power‘.

We are not a peaceful global society yet, so the military and the balance of power will stay with us for a some time.

So we need our military guys to watch the other military guys and give them the same toys. Plus we have to allow them to do stupid research projects.

But our politicians have to watch them carefully and make sure that other countries don’t feel threatened by your own military and gimmicks.

Imbalance, fear and over confidence can be as much a reason for war as race, religion, resources and football.

Inspired by Edosan’s links: The Weird Russian Mind-Control Research Behind a DHS Contract and Run away the ray-gun is coming : We test US army’s new secret weapon