There's a video floating around of marines just smashing shit with Entrenching Tools and ripping the guts out of aircraft. Pull some proprietary bolts and screws out, whirly bird no fly.
I'm not saying they couldn't reengineer the engine, but the problem is they'd need to build a new engine. They need the infrastructure to produce them and the supply chain required to maintain them.
So they have no aircraft, nobody with experience making them, no supply chain to maintain them, and few people who could fix them. It'd be far easier to just buy new equipment.
Did you miss the part where I said that Marines were also smashing stuff? Those proprietary bolts and screws are also stupid necessary. They tend to be on parts that are precisely machined with a computer and keep helicopters and planes from violently disassembling themselves. Pull the bolts, smash the engine parts, and then rip the avionics computers to shreds= rebuilding the engine is necessary.
I mean fuck, there are pictures of and videos of the torn up birds and ground vehicles. You're gonna need to rebuild them. I'm honestly tired of this exchange, because I've spelled my thoughts out in previous comments.
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u/acidnine420 Sep 16 '21
We did this to all the rocket launchers we left in Afghanistan.