Re: [SG2] weapons

After you've read up on the history of the F-16, happy hour starts when 
the alarm clock goes off.

Really, really, really warped development process. I"m still amazed it 
flies.

Ray Forsythe wrote:

> Brian B wrote:
>
>> Here's the problem -- you're starting to pile more and
>> more expensive technology into a system that's
>> intended to be a cheap alternative to an expensive but
>> effective system, just to make the cheap system
>> marginally effective.  Seems very Rube Goldberg-ish to me...
>
>
> Welcome to the procurement process.  Happy hour starts at 2.
>

-- 
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade
and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are
hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of
our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are
willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we
intend to win, and the others, too.

http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/j091262.htm