>>11202794So Air Force funding is a measure of quality now?
For someone so eager to accuse others of LARPing as an engineer...
Anyway, I don't know where you get your over-inflated sense of knowledge from, but you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and you pepper your posts with insults to try and disguise it.
I'm not going to give an engineering lecture on pressure vessels to some delusional SpaceX fanboy on 4chan who can't fucking accept that no matter how fast they built a shitty water tank in a field that exploded, it's still a fucking shitty water tank in a field that exploded. Nor am I going to dignify some idiot's statement that Raptor is "the bESt enGIne EvAR" with any response besides "ok retard."
If you're looking for lowest cost, Merlin beats it. If you're looking for thrust, F1 beats it, if you're looking for sheer technical sophistication, RS-25 beats it. Guess what? They all suck and excel in different categories. There is no single "right answer."
You're the kind of ignorant fanboy that gives the whole space fandom a bad name.