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@Elliptica @Shadowman311 We aren’t ones to talk. Lots of our shit is just as old, we just keep jamming fancy, expensive, temperamental avionics into the aircraft. The ordnance is kinda whizbang here and there but it’s not too common.

Our service rifle? Developed in the 60’s. B-52, Kc-135, B-2, B-1, F-16, F-15, all would rightfully have been called antiquated when our parents were in high school. Effective, yeah, but people really don’t know how much of our air fleet is running longer than anticipated.

They keep going back and increasing the lifetime limit on how much they can fly them, because they’re legally scrap-bound otherwise. Every “NEW” project is endlessly delayed and incompetent, like the tanker replacement that can’t even operate in moderate visibility….because they decided to do away with the windows and replace it with a system of laggy cameras.