Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
I'll agree about 50-60 percent on what Mech has presented, and also agree that once the bullets start flying, some stuff gets accelerated procurement and production.
MRAP and Stryker come to mind.
So too a variety of UAVs and Drones in the past 20+ years. I watched that capability blossom in the first five years of "The War Against Terror" (T.W.A.T.) and it's been continuing on since then.
(The unmanned, carrier-born, refueling aircraft is getting close to IOC...)
It's endemic to government when there is no urgency.
One popular example is - between December 1941 and August 1945 - less than four years - the US produced a simply mindboggling amount of military hardware and new technology (not least of which being the A-Bomb and the B-29 to carry it), not to mention mobilizing millions into the military.
It took four years to bring the Obama Care website online - and it didn't work for
when they first brought it online.