The RDA and SecOps's role on Earth

[Lone warrior]

Originally Posted by Exoblade

I get the impression that a lot of the stuff SecOps uses on Pandora is kind of last generation or have a lot of advanced tech taken off to work in Pandoran conditions with the Sampson being described as a museum piece. Back on earth they would probably field more advanced weapons and armour.

In Pandorapedia, this sentence caught my eyes too. It's a soo cool little element of the Avatar universe.
In my opinion, the reason for this, is the manufacturing. On Pandora, the people have to build most of the equipment by themselves, with techniques like 3D printing, because the interstellar transportation costs are extremely expensive. They get the resources from the mines, and these get processed on the spot. I think they can't do anything too complex like high-powered laser weapons and things like that.