Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Pentagon To Employ Starship, Crew Dragon Flight Delay, Super Heavy Boca Chica Update" video.

@angryrat7882 For that matter, friendly places do need rapid deployment of light troops from time to time. The initial deployment of Desert Shield was a rapid deployment of airborne units. But there also have been operations where the airborne parachutes in and is extracted by (say) Marines. Starship is supposed to be able to land on Mars with no receiving infrastructure. It should be more flexible in its landing options than a fixed wing jet transport. And it might have enough fuel left for takeoff and a hop to a friendly base (given that US bases are distributed liberally worldwide, and some of the supplies shipped would have been expended or could be abandoned). Remember, Starship is supposed to have SOME fuel left in a orbital deployment with payload. A land to land hop from US to anywhere on Earth requires substantially less delta-v than getting to orbit, and Starship is capable of stretching range a little in this sort of mission with its modest atmospheric "cross range" capability. +Hedgehobbit (scrubbed) Are you projecting a delay on the third operational flight of Crew Dragon to a general future tendency for unplanned last minute delays for future SpaceX craft regardless of the maturity of the program? That seems irrational.
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