"Richard Clark" wrote
Admiral Hyman Rickover. He was a thorn in every side at every level
(but that is how to make an honestly robust and bullet-proof weapons
system unlike star wars).

Hi Richard -

Luckily, Rickover was never part of a weapons system. Or else, in addition
to driving a submarine that was too heavy, too slow, and could not dive as
deep as the enemy because of his assanine demands on the nuke plant, we
would have also had torpedoes that were slower than the enemy that was
hunting us. Bad enough that they dove deeper ran faster and had torpedoes
faster than we were. I once had some twit Canadian who was visiting across
Lake Erie when I was home on leave, tell me that the U.S. simply out-spent
the Soviets in the Cold War.. That jerk-off would never know the harrowing
times that we were nearly rammed by packs of faster boats that could sweep
an area at nearly twice our top speed. They would race, stop listen, charge
another direction, stop listen, etc. We out-trained and out-manuevered that
dedicated adversary, and anybody that thinks differently reads too many
novels..

Also, the Chinese never got our propellers, and it wouldn't matter if they
did then or now. It was the Soviets that bought the ballbearing technology
for sound silencing from Toshiba - who violated their contract by "sharing"
it.

Best regards,

Jack