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Originally Posted by That Guy
i could go into it, but the video's are high def, and a lot of times they're using IR/thermal/night vision, which really doesn't lend itself to color (well, thermal does i guess, but color is based on the reflection of light). If it suited their purposes (and was a visible light camera) it'd be in color (and day recon generally is color/3D), otherwise it just adds expense. most missions are at night (safer for aircraft) an use IR (you could NV a visible light camera (again removing color), but the explosive plume would obscure the target, making it impossible to track ordinance hits).
military hardware is weird though, cause you've got this fusion of tech from the 60s, 80s, and today all mixed together. hell, when in south america, ADF is still used (revolutionary 1920s technology).
i know it's probably just a throw away comment, but just in case I do like to clear up misconceptions (and there really are a lot of gaps between how the public thinks the military/war works and reality).
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Believe it or not they are still maintaining and using some items from WWII.
I no longer do it but from 2009-2011 I did some direct government contracting. It was usually small replacement parts, all parts had names and part numbers but many times it didn't say what they went on. I received
a lot of blueprints that had dates on them with the last revisions being in the
1940's with the materials and processes used long obsolete. (Of course you then just used the modern equivalent or better) I did see some that were
missile parts with dates from the 60's. Never been in the military but I am
pretty sure we still have old missiles siting in silos pointed all over the place.
Somebody just gives them a once over and replaces anything that degraded
over time and makes it good as new. We landed on the moon in 1969 so I
am sure a lot of that 50 year old technology is good enough in a lot of situations.