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COTS FTW There's a big argument going on in military procurement right now about the high $ state of the art drones vs cheap & adequate.
by anigbrowl 3y ago
COTS FTW
There's a big argument going on in military procurement right now about the high $ state of the art drones vs cheap & adequate.
- rossdavidh 3y agoWhile that is true, the tradeoff there involves throwing 1,000 state of the art at the enemy, vs. throwing 5,000 cheap and adequate. (not sure if the multiplier is 5x but something like that) NASA does not have exactly the same situation. There was a time when they were going to try to do more, cheaper, faster missions, which IIRC lasted until the first one failed, and then that policy was abandoned.
- plopz 3y agoI think the CLIPS program is supposed to be a variation of that tradeoff