It's utterly unbelievable, these guys will officially make billions anyway by selling these to their own Government, especially if they were selling the separate scientific/technological+metallurgical secret "formula steps" that were required to research and develop in order to squeeze this http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/navy-prepares-to-take-rail-gun-to-sea/ into the size, shape, weight, recoil, ammo capacity and practical longevity/functionality of this http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/rifle/M107.html.
and don't get me started on that magically detailed and precise x-ray scope, that piece of targeting scope super-tech breaks so many visual perception/radioactivity limitations of physics (the US Army Snipers will be beep invincible with that stuff) that i refuse to believe that it was manufactured by human hands, no way that thing being made by some Extraterrestrial geniuses is way more plausible.
but the best they could come up with is to sell it to a bunch of rus/chechen terrorists ? for some 50+ million bucks ?

That makes sense I guess, splitting up the profits to accounts and just receiving only the upfront payment. Now for their rationality for not caring about the damage they'll cause to the world, I don't know how their going to make more money that way. I guess they must be extreme war profiteers who lack any empathy and are very indifferent. I guess the bad guys of Eraser are just like Juno Skinner from True Lies.

Well, the weapon receivers wouldn't pay the whole sum upfront, so much is clear. You never pay all of the money upfront, just a bit of it to get the deal going. The major share would be paid when the deal is done or at the moment of transfer. So 52 million as an appreciation upfront payment is totally understandable.
Another fact is, they would probably split the payment over multiple accounts. You would never pay several billion in one go, not even on a swiss account and especially, if you haven't received your ware yet. Maybe they paid more upfront already on several accounts, but Arnie hadn't time enough to check all data before it got erased!

Exactly. Even in 1996, 52 million dollars was a pitifully low amount.
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I guess it really doesn't make sense but I take it with a grain of salt since it's an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie.
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That is what I didnt like about this movie aside from Arnold's weak character role throughout it. The movie's producers tried to play this movie's backstory seriously to it's audience but fully failed in it's believability. It probably could have been done better in an "Enemy of the State" sort of way with CIA/NSA intrigue/suspense. BTW James Caan stole the show bigtime from Arnie. This was definitely one of Arnold's weaker efforts in his career.

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