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Also the US counts support as like, the original sticker price value of bone-yards hardware we have shipped them. And it's such old old stock. Such as the m1a1
by jauntywundrkind 2y ago
Also the US counts support as like, the original sticker price value of bone-yards hardware we have shipped them.
And it's such old old stock. Such as the m1a1 tanks we gave them. This is a 1970's design we made up until 1992. The US would never field such ancient tanks ourselves, not without massive overhaul & refurbishment. They also drink fuel like crazy & have demanding-to-maintain old old old gas turbine engines.
We've shipped countless pallets of ammo that is either expiring or expired. We gave them the ancient old stock of 1980's ATACMS that were rotting in place.
Yet we keep saying we give them $X dollars of aid. As if this ancient surplus equipment is as valuable today as what we paid for two three or four decades ago. Equipment we had just lying around, that we were going to have to dispose of somehow, at significant cost to us.