Marines slated to get new unmanned planes

Kevin Brooks wrote:


Gee, the Army has already deployed the similar Raven small UAV into the
theater of operations...why do we keep tripping over each other to develop
what is basically the same capability twice or thrice over for individual
services?

If I had to guess, I'd say the likely reason is that the relatively
small costs and numbers involved make it less expensive and time
consuming to just stand up the individual systems as opposed to opening
a joint office to determine everyone's separate needs- even if they
are very close off the bat.

Mike