timtam,I appreciate your opinions but there are a couple of...

timtam,

I appreciate your opinions but there are a couple of contradictions in your post.

You are stating & I quote "for National Security reasons, Govt's want the latest technology to start/keeping manufacturing of critical hardware."

Fair enough, but, Titomic want to eliminate traditional manufacturing methods............this means decreasing manufacturing jobs not increasing them.

After Corona, due to world wide job losses in the 10's of millions, not to mention another great Depression on our hands, it will be interesting to see what the future for manufacturing will be?

Will Govt's intentionally regress for the sake of creating jobs for the new generation of unemployed? or will new opportunities arise out of all this for future job growth in other sectors? Perhaps but where?

In regards to the latest ann. I would have been more impressed if it was an actual signed contract with another strategic partner such as Boeing or Trek.