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By what criteria do you stress test alternative proposals? I ask because 15 years in Defence procurement slapped the romanticism right outta me.These days when someone says X should have bought Y I think about the cost of development, Life of Type, place in the force structure, cost of ownership/sustainment and other boring stuff before I think of how fast it goes and the other cool stuff. This puts me at odds with crowd favourites like the Super Tiger, Super Crusader, P1121 and Thin Wing Javelin in favour of things the crowd hates like the EE Lightning. For all that the TSR2 would be a winner in my book, although I've learned far more that I ever suspected about the first ruggedised digital computers, the 'fail operational' concept, gallium integrated circuits, computer memory limits and the importance of data buses than I ever would have suspected in order to reach this conclusion.
By what criteria do you stress test alternative proposals? I ask because 15 years in Defence procurement slapped the romanticism right outta me.
These days when someone says X should have bought Y I think about the cost of development, Life of Type, place in the force structure, cost of ownership/sustainment and other boring stuff before I think of how fast it goes and the other cool stuff. This puts me at odds with crowd favourites like the Super Tiger, Super Crusader, P1121 and Thin Wing Javelin in favour of things the crowd hates like the EE Lightning. For all that the TSR2 would be a winner in my book, although I've learned far more that I ever suspected about the first ruggedised digital computers, the 'fail operational' concept, gallium integrated circuits, computer memory limits and the importance of data buses than I ever would have suspected in order to reach this conclusion.
