The proxy war in Ukraine has proven our weapons are more about being visually or technologically impressive than functional on the battlefield.
The defense industry is clueless about how to build weapons against formidable enemy in a ground war.
All it proves that giving better weapons to poorly trained troops that lack the combined arms strategy that the US uses will achieve nothing. Same will go with the F16s. These weapons don’t work in a vacuum. Saddam’s army didn’t get murdered because of the M1s. It got murdered because of the combined arms strategy. Same same Russia’s Wagner unit getting its @ss handed to it in Syria.