Just an analogy to put dumb stuff in perspective. Just saying something is extraordinary stupid doesn't always get the message across.
It is clever implementation of Battleship Gun Turret however...
Did you know Russia completely copied and built B-29? One was captured and they loved it so much that spent a fortune reconstructing and building the B-29.
Would have been smarter to have taken best features and improved on them. They made an exact replica.
Forrest Gump said it well, "Stupid is as stupid does".
So, when I saw your posting I didn't see a marvel of engineering genius I saw the same kind of ingenuity gone bonkers Howard Huges gave America in the "Spruce Goose".
We can't leave out the Greeks of course they had their flying anomalies as well..."The Pegasus"
