>The military doesn't give two shits what the people who wrote the service manual say is "correct" if someone else comes along with something better and testing

>The military doesn't give two shits what the people who wrote the service manual say is "correct" if someone else comes along with something better and testing/operational reality bear that out. The military is not deathly afraid of holding the liability bag the way private companies are. Speaking as someone who worked in military airworthiness and aircraft maintenance, I disagree. We follow rules or aircrew die. It's that simple. You find something that works better through operational testing? Okay. Then your next step is to change the maintenance program. Military maintenance has a separate category for aircraft battle damage, hot refuelling, stuff like that. But it still takes airworthiness seriously.