I used to volunteer for a German rescue organisation (think firefighters but for other use cases) and a common joke was “when you finish your deployment and you can only retrieve either personnel or equipment, what do you choose? Equipment, because personnel grows back after 18 years, equipment after 30”.

So yeah, we can relate to getting shitty equipment…

Yeah, us being hardstuck in the 1980s is apparently still being better than other countries returning to the 1930s…