From RQ-170 Sentinel to Shahed to LUCAS: War for Cheap Drones Comes Full Circle | Times of India
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The issue isn't that contractors emphasize profits, it's that the US Government doesn't emphasize results. The government's solution is typically throwing more money at the problem and the contractors know it so they purposely fail to achieve results so they get more money. The solution would be paying procurement contractors based on results rather than guaranteed payment and introducing more competition.
Yes, I don't disagree with that sentiment; I don't think anyone on this forum does either.
The intentional governmental bureaucracy is implicit; it's not meant to be an anti-capitalist comment or anything, especially since these are monopolies, just marveling at the synergistic, extremely cynical sodomy performed on tax payers.
Actual point being U.S. super secret tech being hijacked and reverse engineered by Iran circa 2011 & 2012, which was then improved by Russians in coordination with Iranians, and then only come full circle by America this year.
Modern articles tend to be about the U.S. reverse engineering the Shaheds while ignoring the past.