I'm saying American nuclear force hasnt been maintained for 35 years, they have no idea how many still work and they cant find enough people who still know how to build Sentinel, or nukes for that matter.
The last part isnt from me, its from the head of their nuclear force
That last part is often underestimated.
You don't build something for 30+ years, you think "well, we have all the documentation, it's easy".
Common engineering problems:
- Some change wasn't properly documented and now no one knows why this wire is here.
- The company that made this control board went out of business 10 years ago, or outsourced everything to China, which we can't do for nuclear missiles...
- No one makes these IC's anymore, because it's all integrated onto 1 MCU, but now we have to retest every facet of the functionality because it's nuclear missiles
- We don't have these kinds of circuit board designers anymore because it's mostly outsourced to China
- The company that made these rivets closed down, etc.
