Originally Posted by Tourist
Better Plan.
Put everybody involved with military procurement/self licking lollipop into a large quarry.
Napalm Quarry.
Ask frontliners which operational aircraft/tanks/ships they want from the yanks inventory.
Buy lots and lots of them off the shelf.
We would never have the newest shinyest kit, but it would all work as advertised
Ho-Ho-Ho
Now, hands up?, who would rather have a ZSU-23mm to ward off offending aircraft, and who would rather have a "Sergeant York", who would rather have "Stinger" and who "Starstreak", and, as for the B-1 tail warning radar......
Sadly, we all have our whoopsies, from "Corporal" onwards we have bought our fair share of US duds ( some might include C130-J!)