Well the chip issue is not straightforward in military equipment. True all the newer chips come from Asia, but a lot of the military equipment uses decades old chip technology and there has been a spare parts issue getting these chips for quite a while. Maybe we are getting rid of obsolete equipment that we can no longer maintain? (Altho…
Well the chip issue is not straightforward in military equipment. True all the newer chips come from Asia, but a lot of the military equipment uses decades old chip technology and there has been a spare parts issue getting these chips for quite a while. Maybe we are getting rid of obsolete equipment that we can no longer maintain? (Although that sounds too logical but could be a side benefit of the protection racket.)
All that "obsolete equipment", paid for with money stolen from you, was gifted to your local police, so they can even more impressively pretend to Serve and Protect™.
Well the chip issue is not straightforward in military equipment. True all the newer chips come from Asia, but a lot of the military equipment uses decades old chip technology and there has been a spare parts issue getting these chips for quite a while. Maybe we are getting rid of obsolete equipment that we can no longer maintain? (Although that sounds too logical but could be a side benefit of the protection racket.)
All that "obsolete equipment", paid for with money stolen from you, was gifted to your local police, so they can even more impressively pretend to Serve and Protect™.