Boin-ney, did I say it right?

[The Grand Nudger]

Let me put it another way.  There's a disparity between what we the people expected, and what the DoD had been asked to do.  When we see that the DoD didn't do what we expected, in this instance..we might transfer that disappointment onto the other subject, what they'd been asked to do.  We might say they gamed that test, but that was the -only- way to pass it, and passing it...was what they were told to do.  That was their mandate.  Make this vehicle pass this test.  

Now, if we feel that the mandate they were given does not meet our expectations, or that it should more closely meet them..the people to take that up with are not the people tasked with meeting the mandate, but the people who created it.  IMO.  I don't think that they could have met our expectations...those systems that became such hot button political issues still don't work on modern Bradleys, and it isn't for a lack of trying. HEAT rounds do what they do when they breach, that's a triumph of the rounds design, not a failure of an AFV's design. Most of the noise was due to misconceptions made apparent in the reporting. It's not a tank, it wasn't even designed to engage tanks..it was meant to match the BMP series. Joe Citizen doesn;t know that, though, and that's what helped politicians who -were- briefed to work up indignation on those counts.