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Originally Posted by Schone23666
I would say the "idea" of having a system like DIVAD wasn't necessarily bad at all, especially if they could've tweaked it to provide ground fire support in a pinch like the Russians did with the ZSU-23-4, though I heard the Russians lost a lot of ZSU's when they pressed them into that role. But once they started designing it with inferior components in a very sloppy and poor execution of said platform....ugh, yeah, enough said.
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The DIVAD was a poor excuse to use "off the shelf" components to provide something we needed at a time when defense budgets were getting slim for R&D. It was a PBI (Partially Baked Idea).