There is another "angle" this as well..
We don't wanna see our stuff "captured" then "Reverse Engineering" by Moscow..
Yet Moscow digging into old WW2 "Supplies" they "Wharehoused" thru Cold War..
Cant we give em a 1970s/1980s "Stockpile" in Volume but the "Technically" Irrelevant other than maybe "Armour Thickness & Plating*