Originally Posted by Pooka

In Oklahoma there was a gun that was on the drawing board. The chassis for it was already in production and a prototype was built and tested.

Then Congress killed the deal and Sen. Inhofe of Oklahoma went nuts. He could not understand why an 11 billion dollar weapon system should be canned just because....

The Army said it had no use for it.

The costs had overrun to twenty-five mill per weapon from 4.5 mill.

It was too heavy to travel by rail since it would bend the rails over.

There was no aircraft large enough to lift it. It was built so that two of them would fit inside a C5-A, but then the aircraft did not have enough power to take off.

This was in 2002 and Rumsfeld just could not see putting anymore money into it. Does this prove that Republican oppose Defense spending?