I neglected to mention why US equipment is frequently of lower utility or reliability than Israeli equipment. In many of the cases I’ve dealt with the company proposed a change or upgrade that would improve the US equipment. The primary reason for turning the request/proposal down was the cost and impracticability of changing all of the Technical Orders, processes, procedures or drawing packages to reflect the proposed change.
The Israelis can implement a critical change in as little as 24 hours. Not only are their documentation rules looser, but there are many fewer copies to change out. Thus, if changing something improves the equipment’s utility, reliability or other factors, the cost is much lower to implement the change.
Again, you are correct, for all the good it’ll do.