@Thundermark oh definately

And only better than the Democrat alternative, but only just.

the waist is out the ass

meanwhile, our troops have *yet* to get body armor that can reliably mitigate a 7.62×39mm round, the most commonly-used enemy round

did you mean waste

BUT the inefficency is as much a function of people not knowing what they fuck the requirements are dictating policy as it was anything else

Latest addition. It's 22lr, but better than nothing.

and everyone thinks they know how to do it better

Waists don't generally come out people's asses. Be more precise with your language.

When will darpa deploy those biomass fuelled robot killing machines?

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When we first deployed troops to Afghanistan, our Humvees didn't have *armor* on them, soldiers had to weld on w/e random scraps of metal they found on the side of the road ("farmer armor")

It's been a decade

still tho, it was a disgrace

if you want the gov to spend less money, they you need to retain the quality people that can look at the contractor trying to sell them their new experimental widget and go, "We don't need that"

instead, the contractors have supercomputers

When somebody says they to support the right to bear arms.

the gov rep has a stone tablet

you get what you pay for

Bureaucrats don't know shit about efficiency, they're out for expanding cost and budget

The US Army has repeatedly told Congress that they neither need nor *want* more Abrams tanks (b/c we're not fighting a land war w/ Russia), but the retards on the budget committee (many of them *civvies* who have no fucking idea what they're doing) **keep buying more fucking tanks w/ taxpayer $$$** <:thunk:462282216467333140>

the humvee problem was a function of contractors that skimpped on materials and logistics

to save a buck

@Thundermark propping up local jobs

Congress doesn't DO any of the work

that's the issue

It's all about the war economy

My uni is considering cancelling classses

welp

congress ddoesn't understand shit when the allocate funds to fielld new platforms

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> @Thundermark propping up local jobs
@Jim yes. But those local jobs could be manufacturing something *useful* instead

and DC is always trying to get gov reps to cut corners when it comes to requirements gathering used to contract systems out to contractors

@Thundermark you think those bureaucrats on capital hill give a shit? It's easier to give stimulus into a trusted weapons manufacturer than to figure out better allocation of money.

if the requirements are inaccurate, if their isn't s tringent set of checks to keep the contractor honest, you end up with shit

> @Thundermark you think those bureaucrats on capital hill give a shit? It's easier to give stimulus into a trusted weapons manufacturer than to figure out better allocation of money.
@Jim that's why they need to be *removed*

>college has a fallback date
>has given me a whiteboard and several books for the rest of the academic term.

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bureaucrats in the chat be like