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A contemporary echo to that story: "US Navy Procurement Disasters - The Littoral Combat Ship and Zumwalt Class Destroyer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odS3K
by sorokod 3y ago
A contemporary echo to that story: "US Navy Procurement Disasters - The Littoral Combat Ship and Zumwalt Class Destroyer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odS3Kn5oGl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odS3Kn5oGl0
- bee_rider 3y agoLooking at Clarke’s Wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke > During the Second World War from 1941 to 1946, he served in the Royal Air Force as a radar specialist and was involved in the early-warning radar defence system, which contributed to the RAF's success during the Battle of Britain. Clarke spent most of his wartime service working on ground-controlled approach (GCA) radar > Although GCA did not see much practical use during the war, after several years of development it proved vital to the Berlin Airlift of 1948–1949. I think he must have had some pretty good first-hand experience WRT deploying new tech during a war! The US also famously had the whole Mark-14 torpedo fiasco, the torpedo issue in the story is not quite similar but there might be an echo.