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.
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