Mr Hinecap.
I think I can't get the grasp of your above post.
While I don't recall stacks of posters telling of how we don't do R and D on counter IED, that is a side issue.
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sometimes thinking out of the box brings forth Ideas that can produce a totally new concept at a fraction of the costs that the Arms companies would spend on R and D.
Really?
Why do so many people think we're not into this sort of thing as well?
If I have this right, A poster said that thinking out of the box can be a good thing, and cheaper than traditional R and D, and you counter this by saying that we do R and D in the traditional sense?
There have been countless examples of how 'the chap on the street' has solved a problem that years of government/MOD thinking has not achieved as good a result.
All light blue types should know how the Brits had thought the vic formation was the best doctrine for flyers to use, and look where that got us! By simply using something that worked (well, ok, copying the Germans, but at zero cost) we then transformed our dogfight scores, and the adopted system is still in use today