Minh-Nhat Le wrote:
--- Alfred Urrutia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't see it that way. Wartime engineering, I mean. WWII
(closest
real-world example) has more than enough examples of crazed
desperate
designs that were created to address a threat and some of those
designs
look like aliens drew them up compared to the other weapons and
machines
around them.
Which side was mostly responsible for those designs, and did said
side win the war?
In war, you simply don't have the time for proper R&D, test, and
debug. You mass produce what you know to work as quickly as you can
and throw them out at the front lines. R&D is something that should
be reserved for one time use, mass destruction sort of weapon, like
MA's or the atomic bomb, not piddly things like MS or outlandish
aircraft designs.
You are trying to equate "should" and "must". In a war. Doesn't work
that way. Doesn't work that way outside a war sometimes, otherwise
explain how someone who should save for a rainy day and should be a
law-abiding citizen can end up killing some witness to his illegal drug
making operation because he must eat and he must cover the rising debts
he was stupid enough to generate in the first place?
In peace the powerful nations have R&D. They are thinking ahead to
maybe future battles/wars. What if a war starts early or goes on longer
than they planned? Well, maybe some of their back-burner ideas become
necessary. I'm not Gundam expert so I don't know if the Kaempfer was
something that had any significant R&D time prior to it being needed or
not. But history is full of examples of private firms coming up with
something that, with a little modification, became something that a
military could adapt to its own purposes, and outside its own R&D
teams. The B-24 was based off of (if I remember correctly) a civilian
design (possibly amphibious). It's obvious from its lines. But,
adapted, it made a hell of a bomber.
Alfred.
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