Defense Acquisition Through the Ages
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D’raw and Kwa-id directed their considerable strength towards lifting the strange object. “Is like … old club,” D’raw panted, “But … much heavier. Makes … bigger dent … in mammoth … head.”
“Me see,” Krog replied, encouragingly.
“Only problem,” Kwa-id conceded, in between breaths, “is mammoths tall. Club heavy. Club best … on small mammoth … or … sleeping mammoth.”
“Sleeping mammoth?” Krog asked. “How we get close and mammoth not wake up? If mammoth wake up, how we get away and not get squished?” D’raw and Kwai-id dropped the club with a thud.
“In all this time, you only make one club?” asked Krog.
The two nodded, and Krog spat in disgust. “Krog not impressed. You go away. Make better club. Maybe even make two different ones, then Krog do comparison and …”
…to future…
“Well,” said Ensign Tkll’ngs’m, reading from a list of talking points, “the aforementioned threats will now be defeated by the highly lethal and survivable Peregrine Starfighter with its balance of increased speed and range, enhanced offensive and defensive spacionics, and reduced observability. The design of the Peregrine also emphasizes reliability and maintainability. To ensure reduced observability, we are emulating the Wavedroid’s cloaking technology, the main drawback of course being that, like the Wavedroids, we will have to decloak in order to fire weapons. Or activate the sensors. Or turn on the engines. Otherwise, it works very well.”
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