Comment by sonnyblarney

I worked in defence as well, and the requirements are not just a 'checklist'.

You're talking about safety, consistency. Lives - and geopoltical situations are at stake.

Do you know what it means if a guided missile goes wayward and crosses international borders?

Or the rescue helicoptor's GPS is unreliable?

Totally agree it's bogged down in bureaucracy ...

But those requirements are real.

You want complicated: work in 'manned space flight' probably the highest safety tolerances of anything. My god I don't even know how we get someone in space these days.

We use the Russian system because it's old school, probably less complicated and reliable.