Who are you to question Lockheed’s tactical genius? Next thing, you’ll be complaining about the price.
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I heard if you buy 9 cruise missils, the 10th is free.
That is true if you pay in Euros or Riyal.
I was on a safety team sent to evaluate a problem with the early stand off missile. It seemed that when they dropped it from the plane with the wings folded and the engine off, it failed to open the wings and fell into the ground like a rock. It was designed to open the wings and stabilize and then fire up the engine.
We traced the problem to software that checked all the deploying ordnance and found that a program that verified all the ordnance were properly installed was still running after it was dropped.
Well, the deployment ordnance signaled the safety circuit that the ordnance was gone and the safety circuit shut everything else down. The solution was easy, change the software so that when you launch the missile it stops checking the ordnance to see if it is safe. (Its gone, and not a threat to the plane anymore.)
This was a fun trip, and this is the first time I heard the system was deployed to do what it was designed to do. Each branch of the company sent their trouble shooting “engineers” to help find out what was wrong before the design went any further. This was part of Lockheed’s team effort to get to the bottom of critical problems quickly.
My hat is tipped to Lockheed.
LOL, let’s buy a bunch and then shoot all the 10th missiles!
See? Modern warfare doesn’t cost anything at all!!!!!