And Coulson could be Chef Ramsey.They could start a family business together, maybe call it Amy's Baking Company, haha.
Right? Because failed multimillion dollar weapons contracts are a thing of fiction
#RAH-66 Comanche
#ARH-70 Arapaho
#HK XM-8 Rifle
#XM29 OICW
to name only a small portion of the more recent Hammer-style failures.
Some still manage to get through to production though. The Osprey and the Bradley Fighting vehicle [see Pentagon Wars... great movie] come to mind.
Granted some are clear cases of bureaucracy and politics putting the cart before the donkey, others are the government saying "build us a weapon/tank/fighter... here's a blank check" and the contractor comes up with mixed results.
Fiction imitates life...just sayin.
The Osprey is a great bird, the theory was sound, the engineering tech just wasn't quite there yet initially.
You also missed an aspect of recent defense acquisitions, the military goes to industry and says that they want something, let's say a jet fighter with a certain set of specs and capabilities. Contractor says sure, and they & the military agree to a price of X per plane. Then as production starts the military comes in and say that in addition to everything we wanted the plane to do at the beginning, we now want it to a little more, of course the contractor agrees and the price goes up accordingly. Months later the military comes in and tells the contractor, we now want to add this new gizmo to the plane, and the price goes up again. And this goes on and on until the price has skyrocketed way over budget and delays the plane years past its original deadline. This is basically the story of the F-35 and the LCS.
I see what you're saying and maybe it's one of those things that is inherent to the world of fiction. They either don't understand how it all works and portray it as they imagine or they do and realize that going into that much detail is TMI and probably boring for the average audience.
In comics, at least how I've always viewed it, the contractor comes to the government and says "hey look at these Hammer drones I made... want to buy them?" and the government slaps their flag on it and calls it theirs.
In reality, the government says "We want drones with these specs" and Hammer, Stark, etc. all present their versions to the government in order to compete for the production contract.
It's on next week and then the break. During that time I think we get Agent Carter.
So a couple of random commercials popped up in the middle of the conversation between fitz and simmons on the quinjet and I didn't get to see how it ended. Anyone want to summarize for me?