Note in the last two paragraphs -
- 1 - The Navy just ordered 350-odd new ones in the last two years.
- 2 - The Navy also ordered -”the procurement of modernization kits to be installed in Fiscal 2019, when the Navy begins mid-life recertification.” - which clearly indicates a stockpile that is aging and requires mid-life recertification in 2019. On the whole, one would think its better to shoot off the old ones and replace with new, than to mess about maintaining old stocks.
true, but i don't think there are that many out there to get new mod-kits, most anything we have would have been built post 9/11 Iraq/Afghan strikes which ate up most if not all of what was left after the Gulf war, not to mention what 0bama used and the 50 some Trump launched the last time and after looking at the numbers from this strike, at least 66 came from the UK/france
i guess my point is we don't really have that a large surplus