Is ABC Lateline implying a doofus seized control of the Collins project ?

Question

<<However, the submarines suffered from one major defect which the media and the public never really picked up on. The combat system - that is the computer systems in the submarine used to find enemies and fire torpedoes or missiles at them - has been by far the largest problem for the Collins class submarines. The earlier Oberon class submarines had a largely Australian-built combat system which was one of the best in the world. When our submariners began planning the combat system for the new submarines, they naturally wanted an even better one. However, what they asked for proved to be too hard to build and the combat system never worked properly - in fact it was never finished - and it was abandoned in 2000.>> ABC Lateline

Didn't the legacy system have this functionality already ?

So did they have a working model already ?

So was someone paid money to not deliver a working system ?

Answer 1

Like most systems it was designed by a committee.  By definition a life-form with many legs and no brain ☺

Doug