imperialscum said:
Sorry but this argument is silly. Take a WW2 for example (on which Star Wars space combat was based on), completely new fighters/bombers came out almost every year. And in a war state, it doesn’t take 30 years to withdraw the obsolete models. In pacific theatre, when F4F Wildcat was introduced in 1941, F2A Buffalo was essentially completely replaced from the main units. Same happened to F4F when F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair were introduced in 1943. Then less than 10 years later (even though war state ended), in Korean War you had completely different type of fighters (jet engines, swept-wing design, etc.).Don’t we still use B2 Stealth Bombers and shit like that now a days?
One reason is the lack of equal opponent and prolonged state of peace. The other is obsoleteness of the role itself. Even better example of that is B-52 strategic bomber. With introduction of intercontinental ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear strike faster and more reliably, the whole role became obsolete. Since then, these bombers has been essentially used to bomb poor countries with conventional bombs.