Nitpick, but isn't that a lot like saying "this magazine carries enough bullets to kill a whole platoon of soldiers"? I mean, it technically does, but only if they're all lined up in front of you and you never miss, which is almost certainly not true in real-world conditions.
> This failure to intervene is probably the most egregious shortcoming of VMS. But it's notoriously awful along other dimensions. Here's some of what I remember, mixed in with conversations with folks more recently onboard:
It seems like the military really ought to give the users of systems like this the ability to say "fuck no" and send it back after doing some user testing. Some of the issue identified are egregious and maybe the kind of thing that could get a submarine that's actually fighting sunk. I mean, it sounds like it's so bad it nearly got a submarine that was just cruising around sunk.