Originally Posted by Not A Boffin
When you actually read the minutes of evidence, what is breathtaking is the sheer scale of technical illiteracy (some of it wilful) of the interrogators. Amjad Hussein comes across as giving very clear factual answers which some in the committee struggle desperately with...
Hardly surprising if you watched the committee hearings. A typical example of PAC Chairwoman Margaret Hodges's aggressive antagonism and tenuous grasp of the issues was her insistence that our EMALS (which has successfully launched aircraft during trials on land) was not only unproven technology but
"...a different system" to that used by the Americans because our carriers will only have two of them whereas USS
Gerald R. Ford will have four.