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The thermal optics are outdated shit that the French offloaded on them after pulling them off the Leclerc.
The "Active protection system" requires manual input from the crew. I don't really need to elaborate on why that's bad, right?
The engine was never designed to be used in a vehicle. It's meant for running fuel pumps. There is no evidence that it can hit its stated top speeds.
The internal electronics are all visibly outdated, and have no backups. If the monitors go down, the crew are blind.
The autoloader is just the same tech they've been putting in tanks since the sixties.
You need to be actively using it at all times or you die
To be fair, the B1 bomber (which we never actually used in action) was also built to fuel economics and enrich plutocrats.
Then there was the Sea Wolf attack sub, created not because we really needed a replacement for the Los Angeles class, but our small society of submersible-savvy engineers needed to stay in practice making submarines, so the US gave them a project to do.
Wut? The B1 saw plenty of action. For example:
Make no mistake it was an expensive program and didn't deliver what was hoped, but it's seen plenty of real world use.
So I was entirely ignorant about the project to refit B1s for conventional weapons starting in the George H. W. Bush administration. So, the last thirty odd years. I had thought we'd gone from B52s to B2s regarding conventional strategic bombing.
Pretty sure the B-one was used significantly in Afghanistan.