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What's worse than deliberately bad force design? Deliberately bad force design by committee.

More than a year ago, I asked someone to pick the worst aircraft of WWII to equip the fictional nation of Emutopia. My job, was to use every procurement trick in the book to get the Government to buy the worst of the worst.

For 2026 I wanted to make the challenge harder. And so rather than sourcing all the picks from one person, I took individual recommendations from people across industry, government and Patreon with my job being to figure out a way justifying dozens of random picks into a single procurement plan.

Welcome to Emutopia and our April 1st (in August) special.

Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/PerunAU

Reading and Sourcing

Glorious Emutopia does not require sources or evidence Citizen, move along.

Caveats & Comments:

All normal caveats and comments apply. In particular – I would like to note as always that this material has been created for entertainment purposes and is not intended to be a complete or comprehensive examination of the topic in question and should not be relied upon to inform financial or any other decision, evaluation, or similar.

Any content relating to the conduct, views, activities or any aspect of any person or character in this video is included for entertainment purposes and does not represent an assertion of fact on those matters or any matters in relation to that person or character.

Care has been taken in compiling data, quotes, and other inputs from various sources but errors can occur. Quotes and included data should be considered illustrative, not definitive and their veracity should not be relied on.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Intro

00:01:28 — What Am I Talking About?

00:03:17 — Introducing Emutopia

00:04:19 — Emutopia’s Army

00:09:53 — Armouring Up

00:13:52 — Rapid Fire Entries

00:18:43 — the Navy

00:23:36 — Time to Go Bigger

00:27:14 — the Battleship Brief

00:34:54 — Emus in Space

00:48:49 — Rapid Fire Round

00:50:12 — Lunar Marines

00:54:49 — Serious Point Here

00:58:47 — Channel Update