I've seen cock-ups like this happen before. Detailed fabrication drawings are auto-generated paper documents (paper, because each one must be signed and stamped by the stress engineer and signed by the checker and because paper is easier to handle by the fabrication shop and remains the copy of record). Sometimes, but rarely, a minor change is made in the 3D model and a new physical drawing is not printed and sent through the document process. In this case, the 3D model is correct but the detailed drawing is not. Or the reverse can happen; the detailed drawing is manually edited (say, under pressure to meet a deadline, with the intent to update the model as soon as the rush is over - then someone forgets) leaving the model incorrect.

That's a lot of non-funging.

There, I said it. Lets all now have a rational, civilized discussion.

Please explain more about this Lysenko fellow. Was he some kind of amazing Russian scientist or something?

And, as we all know, tree rings are a great substitute for actual data, and trees can be made into hockey sticks.

Your comment was possibly interesting and insightful. I lost interest after 'booby prizes', however, and then trundled off to youporn. Sorry.

As you can tell from my sig, I'm a flat-earther. What is this magical spherical world you speak of?

Two words: Bond. James Bond.

Manky scots git!

Did they also have extra apostrophe's?

I can see how that could drive a megalomaniac mad enough to invade Europe.

Yeah, "socialism" was part of the name, but Mr Silly Stache's goal was all-or-nothing. "He" lost, but Germany won.

Germany is now an economic superpower (albeit helped along by the US).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/

The occupy people had to go somewhere.

When you train and educate for current technology and current needs of business, they will be unqualified when things change.

This can be true if your expectations of people is that they only know what they've been trained to know. I have a somewhat higher evaluation of individuals, perhaps this insight is something we do not share.

You are forgetting the ace-up-the-sleeve that the US has. Alien technology.

"Rules of Engagement" would seem to be a relevant term. "He punched me in the face and went down that alley!" Instruction: Do not follow. Yes, maneuverability was a Thud weakness.

The Soviets gave inferior stuff to their intentionally-failed drone states. In a 5-to-1 fight, the US and allies would have won easily, but it would have been a war whose outcome nobody would want due to likely escalation and UN shoe-banging. Soviet clients wanted cool-looking, impressive stuff. Just enough to scare their own population. Russian technology is not something to be dismissed, however. Remember the T-34 and current rockets?