Rheinmetall just open-sourced their Battlesuite protocol - the system that connects military weapons in real-time.

This is wild. Defense contractors don't open-source their core tech. Ever.

But here's the play: they're building the Rails for connected warfare. Open protocol = more integrations = more vendor lock-in at the infrastructure level.

Same playbook as Ethereum. Give away the base layer, own the ecosystem.

Military-grade infrastructure going open source while crypto projects stay closed? The irony writes itself.