Ok it wasn’t very clear.
I was just expressing frustration that a General who was supposed to be actually running the modern factories was talking about automation as though it is something from the future when it is in fact the norm now and the kind of production line that they are paying half a billion in the hope of it producing more should have been scrapped long ago.
This is partly related to other frustration with continuous announcements of moving towards modern technology in areas I am more familiar with, while making excuses for not supplying it to Ukraine.
Agreed it is just a hangup in relation to the particular comment.
I hope to post something on the various CMOSS standards that makes the point better and more constructively.