If you think Milspec is expensive, you should see the cost of not having a Milspec supply chain while still being risk-averse.
If you think Milspec is expensive, you should see the cost of not having a Milspec supply chain while still being risk-averse.
That’s a damn good point, probably more costly and more of a hassle to adopt off-the-shelf products to work reliably in a military environment while minimizing risk.
We could always be less risk averse. We still seem to kill civilians at high rates and our own soldiers signed up to die. Gold-plated weapons aren't much good against peer powers anyway; it's production volume that wins those wars.