The equipment isn't really the biggest issue. The Navy has a bigger problem with the sailors. The expertise is no longer there, the technicians are completely unprepared to perform their jobs. The transition from class based training to computer based training has all but eliminated any technical knowledge from the Fleet. Even the Officers are under-prepared to perform even the most routine tasks of the past. The civilian techs with the greatest wealth of knowledge and ability are retiring or leaving the services because the system is so broken, it burns them out. The funding the Navy does get is thrown away on useless political garbage like the DMR radio, the LCS vessels which are finally getting decommissioned because they have no purpose or usefulness, the JTRS radio system had billions spent with the program ending up dead before any hardware was actually fielded. These are just a few of the programs that I have had personal knowledge of. All the while the gear actually on ships is neglected to the point where most of it no longer functions and is beyond the ability to be repaired on ship. Even our Marines were handed defeat after defeat by the Brits in a training exercise in California.