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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Yes, the military is just starting to realize that off the shelf avionics, that commercial aviation have proved reliable for about a jillion air miles, might work as well as the ones they were having built.....at 100 time the price. Well duh.
I guess nobody was willing to tip the sacred cow of Mil Spec.
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If you took a little time out from bashing the military, you'd might realize that civil aviation has nearly as big a problem adopting new tech.
The advantage they have is their development cycle times tend to be shorter...largely because they don't have as big and motivated a journalistic peanut gallery to kibbitz and "mil-spec" oversight and procurment procedures to make sure the taxpayers largesse is "equitably and justly" distributed.
Allowing for that they're just as conservative.