One of the arguments for the design and procurement of new military hardware is that it keeps the designers and engineers employed. If you want to have an industrial base to make the shit, then you have to buy enough of the shit to keep the industrial base in operation.
It turns out that is not an arcane argument. It apparently happened when the entities that made up our national nuclear weapons production complex forgot how to make a key component for fusion warheads.
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After his USMC career, my dad went to work for the DoD. One of his jobs was testing fuzes and military explosives. They no longer teach people how to do that in the "real" world -- it's all computer sim.
ReplyDeleteHowever, they just had to hire him back (out of retirement, and at a ridiculous rate) as contractor to teach a new crop of engineers how to actually, physically test.