The defence industry loves a good war you know, it's good for business. They often use it as a platform to launch commercial videos demonstrating the usefulness of their high tech killing machines (of course all the missiles fired in them don't kill anyone, but they hit their target all right!)

Let's face it a lot of this shit there's not other way to test if it really works.

It could also be, knowing fine well the spectrum of reaction they will receive globally, a bit of gun toting.