Looks like another case of 'we solved the wrong problem'. Too bad they spent all this money without asking anyone, 'hey, is it a problem if this thing is super

Looks like another case of 'we solved the wrong problem'. Too bad they spent all this money without asking anyone, 'hey, is it a problem if this thing is super noisy?' I think the takeaway lesson here is, if you are building something for the military, have an end user - a soldier - involved in the design early on, and listen to what that person has to say. That applies to many different kinds of engineering. Don't solve the wrong problem.