User blog comment:Echo 1/UNSC Weaponry seems unrealistic/@comment-1650355-20100715170215

Not to mention, weapon advancements weren't always a big concern. The US will research weaponry because we're fighting two wars, have several other threats, and can afford to. (well, not really)

As Americans you can go home from a ten hour day of work and kick back on the couch and watch tv. Elsewhere, people will work for sixteen hours go home (if they have a home) and sit there starving. The UNSC/UEG would be far more concerned over world hunger and famine, then building big guns. The UNSC is no the United States.

And most weapon advancements come through war. The UNSC only had two major conflicts prior to the Human-Covenant War. Most of there weaponry was developed durin gthe Insurrection.