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Re: Mission Creep - Was Re: The new US Army APC the Stinger

From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:27:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Mission Creep - Was Re: The new US Army APC the Stinger

> The alternate to this is that the government contracted for 10
> initially, but some of the senators cut it down, then they
complained
> that the contract cost too much per unit, so they kill the project
> entirely.

Or you could get what Britain got just before WWI.  The conservatives
wanted 6 BB, the liberals wanted 4, so they compromised and got
....eight.

(bought 4, with a clause to buy another 4 under certain conditions,
which conditions promptly happened)


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