American Nukes Controlled by Computers Still Using Floppy Disks!

Feeling safe knowing these World Changers have such modern controllers? Well, watch the upcoming “60 Minutes” report today http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nuclear-missile-crews-burdened-by-old-phone-system/ and see if you sleep safe tonight!

Our Shuttle fleet was operated by NASA with equipment out of the '80s and '90s. How many of our defense systems are outdated? Good Lord! We couldn't even launch the new ACA sites efficiently? How about our intelligence gather or security systems. How up-to-date are they?

I often wonder if the PC on our desk or your smartphone isn't ahead of what our federal and state governments have.

 

If it works it works Why make changes?

 

Up to date in this instance really does not matter.

The military does not go around spending money like college kids at a strip club, contrary to what many people think. It often works with equipment and technologies decades out of date. And for several very good reasons.

First of all, it works.

Then you have R&D costs, contracts, and the fact that everything has to be designed specifically for that purpose. The military just does not have the budget to go around throwing money if something works just because some consider it "outdated".

The systems I worked on until a couple of years ago used JAZ Drives and Pentium class CPUs. Often times it simply costs more to replace 20+ year old equipment then it is worth. As was already said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.