You've never worked for a military contractor have you? It's never black and white. Let's say you ran the project that converted the missile from the militari

You've never worked for a military contractor have you? It's never black and white. Let's say you ran the project that converted the missile from the militarized rad-hard ceramic-capped chip ($$!) that's likely in there now to a nice and cheap off-the-shelf Arm7. Except you forgot about coefficient of expansion for 120degF middle-of-the-day Middle East launches. Your Arm7 flexes too much and loses some bits, your Patriot misses, the soldiers lose their lives, and now the parallel universe equivalent of you can spout off on Internet forums about how the military just doesn't respect traditional, proven designs and is always wasting money on following the latest trend. Also, you probably don't realize when the Patriot entered service? And the number of upgrades it's received?