noisy. do you have a tank that is also a boat is a cool idea in the same way that shark's with laser beams on their heads is a cool idea. let's note for a moment that the marines have not mounted an opposed amphibious assault of the kind that gives rise for the imagined need for something like this since the autumn of 1950, as in the truman administration. this thing has not just been revealed suddenly now as a bad idea. it has been clear it was a bad idea for a long time. originally, they planned to get 1,000 of these vehicles for $9 billion. so far, they have spent $3 billion and have none of them that work properly. if the defense department doesn't put the kibosh on it, the new budget provides another $13 billion to try to get ruffle half of the original planned number of them maybe. it slices and dices and juliennes and faxes contractions is a textbook example of military spending with no point right down to the fact that back in its darkest days when it could only go four hours without