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yeah so why did they wait until Iran had these drone capabilities before doing anything, because now they're just throwing their nuts into the grinder seemingly relying on dated technology that is no longer useful
Prob a multifaceted issue. For one, the US military has a tradition of always preparing to fight the last war, not a future one. But imo, it's a greater symptom of a dying empire. One where corruption allows for the revolving door of higher command to retire to defense industries that bid on government contracts.
Generals know that moving away from these billion dollar platforms would piss off their future employers, so they just put off any actual upgrades for personal gain.
Not really their own nuts, just the nuts of some lower enlisted they don't care for anyways.
It's still impressive tech that could be useful for decades to come if they account for things like drones by other means. In terms of military service a couple decades is still pretty new for most things.
My friend's dad is in a position where he advices purchases for the Canadian navy (gross i know) but the decision is made higher up than him. He would constantly moan about stuff like this cause it generally led to his propositions not going through. Dude was big on rail guns
I think realistically the plan was to never actually do anything direct in the first place, just ensure a status quo of localized MAD where neither side can actually risk attacking the other because it's lose-lose, posture and threaten in order to bully concessions out of Iran while letting the color revolution machine churn along and maybe accomplish something someday, and station some token defenses around the area to stop small scale skirmishes from hitting anything too important.
It wasn't until Israel exploded in a pent up frenzy of aimlessly, frantic violence for the simple purpose of spreading horror and death that a hot war became a possibility, and the Trump regime is too bumbling and incompetent to contain the situation.
Because previous administrations realized that this would be a giant clusterfuck no matter what, so didn't pull the trigger.