Look, tell me what type of weapon will not come a time to bite your *** back one point or another. Your enemy can turn your guns, fighter jet or tank against you. You see a lot of them doing that in Ukraine. That is the nature of weapon. I mean, just because you made it, it does not mean it wouldn't hurt you.
So either you develop weapon or you don't, and by weapon, I mean any type of weapon. Not just guns, artillery or tanks. Yes, in a perfect world, we would not have Biological Weapon, Nuclear Weapon or anything that cannot take back after you had used it, but this is not a perfect world, and in war, whether or not you want to use that, you still want that capability, because if you don't and other do, then you will be in underhand.
I am not a mad man or I am hell bend on ending the world, I am just being a realist. And as I said, people in charge of Military cannot afford the position of "maybe we shouldn't get that as it will blow back up our a$$" If you do that, you lost an edge.