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It is a bit of a meme in germany that our military equipment suffers from a lack of maintenance. Also there were a bunch of cases of new weapons systems just failing catastrophically or having huge security issues.
While true, Germany also has quite strict rules on rating equipment to not be ready. A broken heating or turning indicator on an IFV means it counts as non operational.
For ships there’s a rule of thumb. One is operational and on a mission, one is being refueled and restocked, one is being refit, maintained, or upgraded. So you need three units to always have one available. Germany has six submarines, meaning two are always available for active operations.
For planes you have to do hours of maintenance for every minute in the air.
The Bundeswehr used to lack funds and personnel, now it lacks mostly qualified personnel.
The amount of funds was never the problem. The way it was spend is and was the main problem.
My country is a bit towards the south and nobody really knows how our ships still manage to float.
We have ships where the entire navigation suite has been replaced with a commercial GPS.
The guns are fired... Every now and then. Sparingly. We still have ammunition from the 70's in stock. Some times we even manage to misplace equipment.
Yet somehow we're considered as the reliable ally, although a bit... wierd.
Honestly, that'll do just fine in 90% of cases.
Only issues are:
What do you do if some country has maliciously turned off or disabled the GPS satellites?
The commercial GPS unit probably isn't very EMP-resistant, so it might quickly be disabled if EMPs start going off all over the place ... as would happen in a nuclear war.
But as long as you're not fighting anybody capable of turning the entire GPS system off and the war hasn't gone nuclear, it should probably be fine.
Sincerely? I'd expect to see astrolabes or sextants being pulled from storage.