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What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
« on: January 03, 2024, 05:11:26 pm »
What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

BY PATTY NIEBERG | PUBLISHED JAN 2, 2024 5:22 PM EST
 
As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The U.S. military occasionally takes that idea to an extreme, using some equipment every day that has been around for decades.

Task & Purpose asked the services to name some of the oldest pieces of equipment they still use to this day. Here’s what we found:
 
Analog navigation tools
Today’s sailors use analog tools like the sextant, paper charts, protractors, and the compass for ocean navigation, some of which even predate the founding of the U.S. Navy, said David L. Clark, a spokesperson for the Navy.

Sailors are taught to use these tools in case digital communications systems, like GPS, go down or get jammed by an enemy.

https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/what-is-the-oldest-military-equipment-still-in-use-today/
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Re: What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2024, 05:12:41 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on January 03, 2024, 05:11:26 pm
if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Our modern military doesn't seem much interested in fixing it if it is broken. **nononono*
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Re: What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2024, 05:48:25 pm »
The Maxim Machine Gun?
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Re: What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2024, 05:51:14 pm »
The Horse?  I read there still is a cavalry division that exists.
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Re: What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2024, 06:29:54 pm »
I'd bet it is a sledge hammer out there somewhere.
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Re: What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2024, 08:52:16 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on January 03, 2024, 06:29:54 pm
I'd bet it is a sledge hammer out there somewhere.

No kidding. I have a 20lb jack I've rehandled at least four times, and it was old when I got it. Every time it's handled, I clean up both faces, both bevels, tape it off nice, and paint it yellow. might weigh a quarter pound less by now, but otherwise, as good as the day it was poured... Some time back in my father's or grandfather's generation.
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Re: What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2024, 09:01:37 pm »
The USS Constitution
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Re: What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2024, 09:47:40 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on January 03, 2024, 05:11:26 pm
What is the oldest military equipment still in use today?

Whatever the Marines are using.
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