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Rare for a weapons system to be canceled after a buy-decision, no matter how expensive, pointless, or worthless the system is.
by ATinNM on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 05:52:38 PM EST
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the M247  AA gun managed to get itself cancelled after two disasters, firstly while demonstrating its ability to cope with helicopters, managed to destroy a tin outhouse on the range, and second on a rollout in front of the Army general staff its radar controlled automated turret turned and instead of tracking the target put up, instead turned and attempted to hose the review stand with automatic fire, this was only prevented from being the top item on the news by the fact that it hadn't been loaded with ammunition.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 06:09:38 PM EST
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Oh, yeah.  The famous Sgt. York Intelligent (sic) anti-air point defense system.  Developed by the reputable Ford Motor Company Aerospace Division.  I knew some of the people who worked on that POS.  The engineers and technicians refused to go anywhere near it when the damn thing was locked-and-cocked.  According to rumor, during one live-fire test it wiped out several trees, a fence, and all the cars in the parking lot.  
by ATinNM on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 06:25:35 PM EST
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