Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution

66NOVA66 · 4.1M views · 2011-05-10 · 10:59

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Overview

A roughly ten-minute scene from the movie The Pentagon Wars showing how the Bradley Fighting Vehicle's requirements ballooned through committee demands into a compromised design. It is a satirical dramatization of military procurement.

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Linked in nearly every F-35 or procurement thread as the classic illustration of feature creep and design by stakeholder committee, including in software.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2014–2024

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Film & TV clips Military history & warfare Satire & parody

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somethoughts · 2023-04 · Recommendation
Reading this “We weren’t sure LCS was executing the missions it was designed for,” Commander of Naval Surface Forces Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener said in January 2022. “And so we … went out to the number of fleet commanders and said, ‘Alright, what do you want it to do? And what missions do you want it to execute based on the environment we’re in now?’” reminds me of this excerpt from a movie: Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution [VIDEO] From the movie "Pentagon Wars". Bradley Fighting Vehicle design and development. Any design engineer will love this scene.
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urlgrey · 2018-03 · Recommendation
Watch the "Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution" video: [VIDEO] It's a great example of how trying to design a product that works well for every stakeholder in every scenario leads to a Frankenstein of a product that doesn't work well for anybody. This happens all too often in government (typically military) contracts.
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kelvin0 · 2015-06 · Recommendation
Agreed, but more specifically here is the 10 minute video which best distills the whole movie. It's worth watching: [VIDEO]
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