Re: Auditors??
Need to agree.
And I'm also surprised this does not get more actively reported.
There are clear signs the current setup of the west's armed forces ( manned, big, highly complex, highly expensive, multi-role planes, ships and tanks plus some 707-sized drones ) are degenerating into the equivalent of the Maginot line in the 21st. century.
They are built with extreme per-piece effort and cost during a 15-20-year dev cycles by very few big players.
Based on the idea of being nearly invincible, but in reality losing survivability and effectivity in actual battle by the day.
They are superseded by new battlefield technology like miniaturized, cheap drones (air, sea and land) and intelligent munition developed by startups and a multitude of smaller developers ( think: community developers in Ukraine) using 1-2 year or even shorter dev cycles.
Just like the relatively cheap, small and agile German tanks simply drove around the outdated Maginot line, then the mightiest fortification in Europe, in 1940, rendering it completely ineffective.