04-05-2017, 04:38 PM
MeatAxe Wrote:What? No booze, hookers, Rolls Royces or bribes? Clearly, you're going on the wrong junkets...just give "Uncle Duke" a call...
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut...story.html
Here's an objective "competition": the M4 starts getting its butt kicked by a competitor, so the Army changes the rules, when that doesn't change the results, they stop the test outright and declare the M4 the winner...typical. What is the point of holding such "competitions" when we know the miserable status quo is going to win by default no matter what? I guess there were still tax payer dollars in the budget that needed to be wasted so they could get more money to waste for the upcoming year...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014...utperform/
In other news, the Feds report that the Russians rigged the election by revealing how the Kleptocrats rigged the election...
MA:
I read the Washington Times article. Most likely some or all of the competition surpassed the M-4 in one or more tests. However, that doesn't mean they surpassed the M-4 in the majority of tests or that they surpassed the M-4 in any of the critical tests. The article does not say any of the competition was better in the majority of the tests or better in any critical test or requirement. Guess why? Because, most likely, none were!
Folks would be amazed at the temper tantrums thrown by respectable companies when their pet rock fails a test. The first thing they normally complain about is the ammo. Then something about how the test was written or how it was conducted or what someone said during the test or any one of a hundred excuses for their failure. The thing they don't say is that they agreed to the test in the first place and their stuff failed. What happens more often than not is that a company submits their item for testing knowing it does not meet a requirement but hoping that somehow the requirement will be overlooked. Another thing that losers do is start arguing about how to define things, particularly things like failures but only after they lose.
There is more to this than meets the eye. I bet the M-4 bested the others in tests deemed critical and or that it was a draw where one had to look at life cycle costs and found it cheaper to keep the M-4.
Just my belief having witnessed this type of thing a couple of times.
LR55