Who does the maintenance on a HIMARS system when it goes down in Eastern Ukraine? Don’t try to tell me Ukrainians have been trained in this short period to do the job. You seriously think there are no Americans maintaining those billions of dollars worth of, again, totally foreign to Ukrainians, highest of high tech systems? Yeah, right.
A truck, is a truck, is a truck.
Hydraulics is the same.
The fire control system is fairly easy to fix by swapping out modules.
As advanced as our weapons are, they’re still designed to accommodate the lowest common denominator.