Thanks for that Wensleydale. I do hope your tongue was firmly in cheek.
The real moral of the story is MoD is chock full of over-promoted plonkers who have nothing better to do than fart about looking for such major howlers. The guy who spotted it prefaced his comments with "As I don't understand the technical spec...I suppose I better comment on something". In which case, why is he employed to scrutinise a technical spec? And why did I need to write a spec in the first place? Because the system doesn't allow DEC to specify a requirement; URDs are so woolly that, if contracted, the deliverable could meet the endorsed requirement but be incapable of being put to its intended use.
In the example I quoted, the main issue was military personnel were dying due to lack of a solution. It is simply not acceptable for MoD to employ anyone, at any grade, who adopts the stance taken. Something I hope everyone here would agree with.