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There's a lot of stuff in the US military that's somewhat aged. The aircraft carrier Nimitz is still in service and was commissioned 50 years ago. The B-52 has
by staplung 1y ago
There's a lot of stuff in the US military that's somewhat aged. The aircraft carrier Nimitz is still in service and was commissioned 50 years ago. The B-52 has been in service for longer than that (in fairness the design is that old; the actual airplanes, presumably not). The A10 Warthog was first released in 1977 and is still in use. The AR-15, embodied in the M16 and M4 goes back to the 1960s and the Browning M2 goes back to 1933.
- hollerith 1y agoNo, most of the B-52s currently in service are well over 50 years old: "The last production aircraft, B-52H AF Serial No. 61-40, left the factory on 26 October 1962." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress#Variants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress#Var... Another weapons system: the M1 heavy machine gun is still heavily used, e.g., one on every Abrams tank, 4 or 6 on every aircraft carrier, and ISTR all of the US's inventory of it was made before and during WWII. I think maybe they use barrels that were designed more recently.