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** Also, before they were able to develop their own defense industry, the Israelis relied on surplus tanks to build up their armored divisions. For example, they had been using heavily upgraded Sherman tanks in every armed conflict up to the Yom Kippur war, nearly ''thirty years'' after World War II ended. They were going up against state-of-the-art Soviet tanks like the T-55 ''and winning''. The Israelis essentially proved that with enough upgrades, an obsolete tank could easily go toe to toe with a more modern one.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20150920105251/http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch2en/conc2en/img/dc3.jpg Douglas DC-3], probably the most reliable and popular transport aircraft of the 1930s and 40s, is still in use today all around the world, resulting in the expression: "The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3".
* An F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter was shot down by a Serbian anti-aircraft batteryforces [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-26-serb-stealth_x.htm using a Soviet surface-to-air missile battery from the early 1960s], whose radar was of an obsolete type that used different operating wavelengths to more modern systems, wavelengths that the F-117 had never really been tested against at the design stage. It only picked the fighter up at a fraction of its theoretical maximum range, but that was still good enough to lock on and score a hit. Although like many fictional examples of this trope, it only worked because overconfidence had made the US Air Force careless: Their stealth fighters had used the same flight-plan repeatedly, allowing the enemy to predict when they would overfly a particular location and have SAMs and anti-aircraft guns lying in wait.
** This case is actually a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]], as this was 90% because of bad tactical decisions made on complacent assumptions and poor interpretations of engagement rules. The F-117 in question basically flew the same route again and again many times, allowing the specialized placement and modification of radar/detection equipment to be directed into a very specific area in a specific way, allowing for a missile lock. This kind of attack would normally be pretty much useless and impractical in any realistic scenario, but when you know exactly where to look for a stealth fighter, the whole point of stealth systems is rendered moot.
* During the early stages of [[World War II]], the Norwegians sank the heavy cruiser ''Blücher'' with some weapons they'd bought decades before, which were considered obsolete. The Norwegian commander wasn't sure whether his ''fifty-year-old torpedoes'' would even work. They did. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] time.
* In the [[Korean War]], the North Koreans were using sea mines dating back to the Russo-Japanese War, supplied to them by the Soviets. Fifty years later they are still using them.
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