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Money alone wont get you far in this area. It's talented engineers and the right strategy that is important.

Otherwise you couldn't explain why the Soviets/Russians had such a remarkably reliable space program, even though they always had less resources than the US.

From what I understand, NASA tends to overload projects with thousands of requirements and features, which introduce additional points of failure, whereas the Russians focus more on the basics.

It seems like the Indians will also use the same strategy, and focus on the basics and reuse what they already have, which makes sense, considering their limited resources.



Actually NASA tends to build to 535 requirements, give or take a few. The is similar to the problem the military faces.


The F-35 has the same problem. It is built to perform in so many roles, that it is bad in every single one of it. (price, weight, maneuverability, payload, range)


yeah the military seems to always be obsessed with 1 aircraft that can do everything. that just means you get something that can do everything poorly.




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