On: The Patriot Missile Failure

[ejain]

Or perhaps it's the massive infusion of funding that makes the US defense industry breathtakingly inefficient? :-)

[dragonwriter → ejain]

The US defense industry is breathtakingly efficient at extracting money from the US government, which is, after all, its whole point.

The US military procurement system may be breathtakingly inefficient at procuring cost-effective equipment, but that's a different issue.