Ol' Sammy saw an opportunity for some of those cash-packed government contracts and leapt at the chance, heedless of the fact his product will (will) one day slaughter non-combatants. After all, dead civilians can always be shovelled into the 'acceptable losses' column, can't they?
If you people aren't careful, Elon might find out about these comments, and get the sense he's not as well-liked, manly, intelligent, handsome, and godlike as he programmed his millions of Twitter bot accounts to tell him he is.
Ha! Joke's on you, scientists! I'll be dead by then!