Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu
You don't understand much about military contractors and the direction the armed forces worldwide are going. Which is expected. Unless you are a) In the military or know someone who is. b) Work for a defense contractor. c) Work for or know people in the government.

The goal is to make everything cheaper, interchangeable (the big one), and multifunctional (like the JSF or interchangeable weapon mounts and rounds).
Give me a little bit more credit, man. I may not have been in a war (my home country was last time in a war in the WW II), but I do have a military leadership training.

And where exactly did I say they should have lots of different mobile suits? In fact I said the exact thing you oh-so-sagaciously said yourself. I said they should have different configurations. Like the latest 4th generation APC produced here in my home country: It's a modular platform that can be configured for a vast array of different missions, fitted with many different kinds of weapons or other equipment. But I fail to see anything like this in this series. They are just the same Flags (or Overflags) or Enacts or whatever those HRL hulks were called with their stupid same antipersonnel weapons that wouldn't penetrate a brick wall.

Whereas, incredibly ridiculously, like Chiodos said, the tiny terrorist organization, on the contrary, produces a very good array of totally different Gundams equipped with very innovative and effective weapons of even larger variety. And then we get yet another terrorist organization, even smaller than the previous one, possible, and they have, again, different Gundams and, surprise surprise, different yet equally deadly weapons for all of their units.

And you still fail to see what I am talking about, eh? The bloody super powers with their incomprehensible resources can't produce a single bloody weapon (in fact they only seem to produce a single type of weapon anyway) that would take down a Gundam, yet the terrorists have god alone knows how many different weapons that all take down mobile suits with a single hit unless they miss.

Give me a fucking break before you start to talk about where the armed forces our of world are going.