Oh, yes. The Red Chinese may have modernized all their systems and thrown away the old ones. They might be hosed when it comes to the Nighthawks.
No smart country throws away their older defense systems! Notice that I said “smart” countries.
Normally working systems are “mothballed” for future emergency use and even updating.
Do we actually have some one in our military commands who is that far sighted?
Scratch Gen. Silly Manilli, the whole Dept of the Queens Navy including Kirby, much of the Marine Corps leaderless-ship, etc.