Pat Flannery wrote:
One of the basic problems was the retention of the Stalinist concept
of having at least two design bureaus working on any project in
direct competition to each other, each trying to undermine the other
in the eyes of the government and seize their competitor's funding.

Sounds like competitive U.S. Military procurement procedures. Do we
have an airborn refueling tanker deal yet?

rick jones
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