Tough To Win The War With 'Known' Faulty Equiptment

Because the last thing that matters in a war is identifying friend or foe, right?

PAC-3 did not meet maintainability and reliability requirements during operational testing, meaning it was down for maintenance more often than specifications called for, and maintenance took longer than planned. PAC-3 had a total of 17 "critical deficiencies" but was deployed anyway. Only one of them is documented as having been fixed, a problem with its identification friend or foe system.

But they'll just do a few more memorials and photo ops for the troops and tell everyone they are the party 'For' the troops.