Jeremy Clarkson's View on the Procurement of Typhoon!

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I think the reason things get developed much quicker during war time, is because people are focused on that particular need. The team concerned only does what is required to get something into service with no embellishments, and very often with considerably less stringent safety requirements that would be needed for peace time.

I've done R&D, what happens is that you start with a simple focused concept which is accepted to go to development. While you're doing the development someone says "It would be very useful if it could do this as well" and then some one else says "If we're going to do that we might as well do this as well"
and you very soon change from a straight forward simple focused object to a very complex nightmare that bares no relation to the original what so ever, cost 10 times a much and doesn't do what it was originally intended to.