чужие уроки, которые вряд ли кто-то будет учить :(
The problem is since the reorganisation of the different departments of the ministry of defense in 2012 the decision making has been completly detached from the knowledge base. The decisions are made allmost entirely directly on the ministry level and passed down to the departmend who only do as they are told. In Koblenz, the place the main office of the arms and equipment procurement agency is located, there is allmost zero technical and tactical expertise. The people working there are allmost exclusively bureaucrats of the purest (and worst) kind.
The procurement agency actually has quite a lot of very experienced engineers and technical specialists. But these are not in the main office in Koblenz. They are at the subordinate technical departments or at the quality ensurance offices spread all over germany.
It gets worse. The procurement agency actually trains engineers. They pay for the university and add military specific training. The training is quite good actually. A little too focussed on germany and not enough rest of the world for my taste but its done. The problem is the department responsible for allocating the personell after their training completly ignores the field of study, the military specific training or any previous training or experience. They just assign people to positions that need to be filled. This usually leads to highly trained and motivated engineers being assigned to simple administrative positions. That have no connection to their studies, training, experience or interests what so ever. The result is that within a couple of years more than half of the people they trained in a given year have left. The ones that leave the usually the highly motivated ones with the best training. The ones that stay behind are the medicre people who are just there for the paycheck and don't care about anything else at all.
As an anecdote: The fact that the MG5 is a pile of hot garbage is well known in the technical circle of the procurement agency. Its even told to the new people during their initial training. When the question is asked "why has it been procured then?" the answer is:"because we (the technical experts) have been ignored". Now its there and we are not going to get rid off it until the people involved in the adoption will reach pension age.
There are several people with lots of knowledge and unterstanding of small arms working for the procurement agency. Just not in Koblenz... with the exception of the WTS. But the people there are basically sidelined.
The things above are some of the reasons why I left the BAAIN and went back to the industry again. I am now working for a major defense corporation who happily hired me with all my special training and they gave me the position I allways wanted plus a really nice paycheck. The BAAIN is basically a nightmare of a bureaucratic cluster fuck. IMHO the department is completly disfunctional and in large parts responsible for the problems we are seeing in the last years.
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