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To: Innovative

When all those defense companies were allowed to merge in the 90’s it meant less competition and innovation. This will just make it worse,


2 posted on 06/09/2019 9:27:18 AM PDT by saminfl
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There is a Facebook group called, "Where are they now? Former Hughes Aircraft Company employees." At this site is a video titled, "When Dreams Take Flight." This video documents the achievements of the people of Hughes Aircraft Company. I don't think any one other company could have done all this. After the mergers, there is no more Hughes Aircraft Company.

I can't find that video anywhere else on the internet.

4 posted on 06/09/2019 9:41:23 AM PDT by saminfl
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Didn’t work well in Russia since the defence contractors consolidated by branches. MIC was probably a single ‘capitalist’ part of Soviet economy with a great deal of competition between design buros and production facilities.

Now they have behemoths like United Aircraft Corporation or Tactical Missile Corporation or All-national Shipbuilding company which bought or starved all competition.

On one hand many of them are publicly traded and everyone can get something off it but the most evident result is their products are now priced on par with Western designs but not necessarily comparable by capabilities. And that is not even the shortest end the military has from it. Not only the military don’t have effective tools to argue prices at such environment they don’t really have that much a say on designs they get. It is mostly decided by producers themselves and politicians.


5 posted on 06/09/2019 9:46:46 AM PDT by NorseViking
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