I can't really argue with the Navy's logic in those particular cases.
But there is a difference between exceeding one's orders and delivering a working product and, say, Christie's "flying tank" or the Sgt. York, which, to be fair, was more of a "frankenbeast" of existing technology kit-bashed together under the theory that it would be cheaper than actually making something that works (wrong on both counts -- it wasn't cheaper and it didn't work...).
Every so often, the opposite theory tries to creep in -- building something that actually does it's job, no more, no less. The F-5 Tigershark (?) was built under this theory, but proved insufficiently "gosh, wow!" or technologically sexy for the PTB to actually buy.
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Date: 2008-06-12 03:31 am (UTC)I can't really argue with the Navy's logic in those particular cases.
But there is a difference between exceeding one's orders and delivering a working product and, say, Christie's "flying tank" or the Sgt. York, which, to be fair, was more of a "frankenbeast" of existing technology kit-bashed together under the theory that it would be cheaper than actually making something that works (wrong on both counts -- it wasn't cheaper and it didn't work...).
Every so often, the opposite theory tries to creep in -- building something that actually does it's job, no more, no less. The F-5 Tigershark (?) was built under this theory, but proved insufficiently "gosh, wow!" or technologically sexy for the PTB to actually buy.