Blows my mind how naive people are about “Futureweapons.”
It’s a gee-whiz show where EVERYTHING is “great.” It’s been on, what, three seasons now? And there hasn’t been a SINGLE mechanical failure, miss, weapons jam, etc. shown on the show yet, has there? I know for a fact a number of the systems shown on the show (EFV, etc.) are programs in serious trouble because of reliability problems.
The deal is Mack is given access to all this neat stuff, as part of a bargain - what is going to be shown will essentially be a commercial for the weapon system. The manufacturer is setting up all the tests and the test conditions. Mack is not conducting rigorous comparative testing under controlled conditions.
I have little doubt that any time there’s been a failure or a weapons jam that footage is simply left out and the thing is reshot.
I get a local fishing magazine with product “reviews.” For the last 6 years, EVERY product has gotten a great review. Couldn’t have anything to do with the editor getting free products constantly to review, could it? Nahh.
Yep.
Car and Driver.
Road and Track.
Guns and Ammo.
With the extremely rare exception, they’re just commercials slickly packaged to appear as “reviews”.