Well this goes for any defense contract regardless of nation, I am just writing from a US perspective due to the resources available to me and I am interested in my own nation's defense precurements. Many recent contracts that seem to have been going smoothly have been cut, and then restarted, thus increasing cost, which is the governments fault. Some of the contracts appear to be duplicates of similar weapons systems, that could have been done jointly. Some contracts have just been poorly mis-managed and have ballooned in cost.
I understand that military hardware has requirements that are above and beyond their civilian counterparts, or are not even within the civilian spectrum, but I find it hard to believe that those requirements cannot be meet within a reasonable time frame, and budget.
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