We destroyed most of our Cold War weapons as the latest Japanese Corporate Culture says to MINIMIZE INVENTORIES. So we told ourselves they were ‘obsolete’ and will never have a future use, and so all of that storage cost was saved.
Russia, though, is SO BACKWARDS that they weren’t up on Japanese Corporate Culture that they kept everything from the Cold War, being the TOTAL IDIOTS that the are...until now.
By they how’s our decommissioning of A-10’s, F-117s, and God knows what else, going?
Who cares about that? How much does Raytheon make warehousing a fifty year old dumb bomb? Let’s keep our “national defense” priorities straight here.
Hopefully well. Those are flying coffins these days against state of the art AA. We need better missiles instead!
Can you just imagine if our military-industrial complex manufactured weapons using Just-In-Time manufacturing techniques? I worked at two different companies that implimented it, and both companies gave up eventually.
Machine breakdowns, raw materials that weren’t delivered “just in time” to be inserted into the manufacturing process, operator unreliability- you name it.
We never would’ve won WWII .