I joined my tank company right after the first Gulf War. One of the stories that many of the guys told dealt with a training simulator, called a UCOFT.
In the US Army, we use this simulator around the clock...it is not uncommon to get a 3:00 a.m. time slot.
Well, the guys in my unit arrived in Saudi Arabia, and somebody go the idea to train on the Saudi UCOFTs (US made, previously sold to the Saudis). And they discover the Saudi UCOFTs are brand spanking new...still had shipping films over some of the lenses new! The Saudis had simply bought them, as part of their purchase of M1 tanks...but had never considered actually training with them.
Interesting story. LOL, I can just see the guys sitting down at the UCOFT, turning it on, and the Saudi guys looking at each other and saying in Arabic “WTF! I had no idea what those things were!”
I know of a hospital in an oil rich Middle Eastern country that went out and purchased all of the best medical equipment that could be bought, and when someone I knew went there, they said none of it was being used.
It was like a ghost town, but very well appointed.