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The Glumslinger posted:Because they high ranking officers would probably get fired as congress/executive branch tries to find competent people to turn poo poo around, and the MIC would be forced to stop profiteering like crazy and actually spend the money effectively. SO its better for them to just pretend that the status quo is cool and good LMAO buddy have I got some news for you about the military procurement process, pentagon promotions, and post-military careers in the MIC. The military absolutely looks for results that aren't "US killed everyone and nobody died" so they can go scaremonger in congress with them to stop boondoggle weapon programs from being cancelled. If you keep going to congress with stories about how the military is unstoppable then they start cancelling programs that generals need for promotions and post-military "thanks for buying this poo poo from us" positions with the MIC. The right also does this on behalf of the military and MIC directly. For example, this report by our favorite boys, the Heritage Foundation: https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2017-10/2018_IndexOfUSMilitaryStrength-2.pdf
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Victory Position posted:isn't the design of the Chinese military focused on rapid response? you know, the Hilux kind of deal, not the bottomless pit of infinite tanks and Ospreys The design of the chinese military is focused on "putting down internal revolts" and "sinking carrier fleets with ASMs"
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Danann posted:The new XM5 rifle apparently weighs 5kg fully loaded and is supposed to replace the in service m16/m4 rifles while being incompatible with the current service round (5.56mm). Someone at SIG won a contract for the history books dang. According to a gun nerds I know it's also by far the least impressive of the three competing designs and only won the contract because it's manual of arms is so similar to ar15s and because the other two designs looked goofy
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