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** Even the Germans had one with the Panzer-III, a medium tank later classified as a light/scout tank. Fast and with a theoretically powerful 50mm AT gun, its tracks were too narrow and impaired its all terrain performance, and the cannon fired too small a HE shell for dealing with field guns and infantry, and it was badly outclassed by even the early T-34s - and some of the French tanks it had to face too.
* The US Army's Universal Camouflage Pattern. It was designed to provide equal concealment in jungle, urban and desert terrain. It only succeeded in [http://defensetech.org/2007/07/06/when-you-dont-want-to-take-out-the-trash/ being equally sucky in all terrains] with moderate performance . To make things even worse, the Army tried to own up by saying their testing trials were biased toward conditions in Iraq... only the best performer in desert and urban terrain was the trials' actual winner, Desert All-over Brush. UCP is ''so'' bad, independent testing has actually concluded UCP is actually ''worse'' overall than just plain brown or tan uniforms.
* Possibly the ultimate example of this in warfare is the British implementation of the battlecruiser. Ideally, was supposed to be faster than the more powerful ships, and more powerful than the faster ships, but the problem was that they had way too much firepower and were way too big and expensive to justify only using against light/unarmored ships, but maximizing the use of their big guns meant putting themselves in vulnerable situations that battleships would have survived without too much trouble.
* Some martial artists accuse [[Mixed Martial Arts]] schools of making their students this by teaching a curriculum that covers all ranges of combat, but at a shallow level. The tension between [[Jack of All Stats]] fighters like Fedor Emelianenko and Georges St. Pierre and [[Min Max|specialists]] in one or two areas like Anderson Silva and Junior Dos Santos is an ongoing spectacle in [[Mixed Martial Arts|MMA]].
* A badly-made spork can seem like this. Can't hold as much food nor hold it as well as a spoon can, nor can it poke and hold as much solid food as a fork can.
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** They are probably missing the point of Publisher. Publisher is more useful for poster design than for picture editing or resume typing.
* In response to not being able to drop standard rifles with paratroopers due to harness issues, Nazi Germany developed a new weapon system, the FG42. Intended to be a machinegun, sniper rifle and rifle grenade launcher that could mount a bayonet and had an integrated bipod, Germany got a weapon that would break simply from firing under normal conditions. Japan by contrast had the same problem and solved it simply by [[Boring Yet Practical|taking an already made rifle and giving it a folding stock]].
* The Littoral Combat Ship was intended to be a corvette-equivalent light vessel that can change between modules to support different missions normally carried out by specialists, like surface warfare, antisubmarine warfare, minesweeping and amphibious operations. In practice, the promises made regarding modularity didn't work out, and other attributes like firepower, manpower and survivability also suffered. As of the 2020s, it was being drawn down in favour of the future ''Constellation''-class frigate.
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