Maybe this will penetrate their thick skulls. After action of the whole series of tests from Nightmare on the America to Zero Deficiencies on the Essex...

How Maj. Robert Guyette Won 2018 Test Pilot of the Year

There’s dark on shore; then there’s dark at sea. There’s no real comparison. So it wasn’t entirely clear how well the F-35 Lightning II night vision system would perform during its first shipboard evaluation.

“It’s gone from a system that was unsafe to a system they can use operationally,” he said. “And those guys are going to use it where it matters.”

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