yeah, today they toss the money in "security" and "prevention" (as in private security guys, cameras, bugs, cellphone/car plate localisating, data-x-referencing, ...).
in the german military, they even save the money for new planes when only after ~7-10 years the reduced maintanace would pay for the replace.. a cousion of me works in plane-maintanace..
(if one of the oldtimers then really drops out of service, it gets even pricier.., sometimes they even rent planes..)
o tempora, o mores..