Tweet-Thread of the Day, This Star Wars Thread May Stress Defense Contractors Out edition.

Every one of those I’ve seen who’s seen this one is nodding along.

1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep.

"Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries"

An early sketch: https://t.co/T4FRTI8hd0 pic.twitter.com/3oSp7xoCQS
— Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 (@vc) December 8, 2022

4 thoughts on “Tweet-Thread of the Day, This Star Wars Thread May Stress Defense Contractors Out edition.”

This sounds all too reasonable, sadly.

Alina similar lines, I have long wondered why the Empire never featured much in the way of close air support.

thekwp says:

December 11, 2022 at 4:21 pm

“Along similar lines”

sigh

This is how we got LCS, DDG-1000, and the F-35.

Luke says:

December 11, 2022 at 9:34 pm

Sometimes, it’s like the AAAV, and just straight-up sinks.

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