Have you seen the movie Pentagon Wars on HBO. Tells the story of the design and building of the Bradly for the US Army. Only took 17 years and 14 Billion dollars and they didn't even have it yet. The first ones they built were turned down by the Israel army as death traps. Finally, this one guy, thru the Senate Arms committe, forces the Army to test it under actual fire and it exploded. Had they not tested it correctly they would have built it as originally planned and 70,000 US troops (estimate) would have died in them in the next war which turned out to have been Desert Storm. They finally redesigned it. Shows what a bunch of jerks run the Pentagon. American greed and corruption at it's finest
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