There's something similar in the world of jet aircraft too. The Textron AirLand Scorpion, built from off the shelf parts, designed to take a whole bunch of ordi

There's something similar in the world of jet aircraft too. The Textron AirLand Scorpion, built from off the shelf parts, designed to take a whole bunch of ordinary weapons systems, went from design to flying at air shows inside 3 years, without massive costs. It's a subsonic, twin jet plane with a stall speed around 100 knots, which costs ~$20m. It's not remotely clever compared to the Eurofighter, Sukhoi Su-XX jets or similar recent generation multi-role aircraft, but for low speed engagement with flexible hardpoints and easy maintenance, it's hard to find many competitors. Which is weird, given the nature of most aerial combat roles for the past 15 years.