Platforms

Longest serving

Still held, by the earliest year in service.

  1. 1Ordnance QF 25 pounder Towed artillery · Royal Ordnance86 years in service
  2. 2Douglas C-47 Transport aircraft · Douglas84 years in service
  3. 3M114 Towed artillery · Rock Island Arsenal84 years in service
  4. 4Auk-class minesweeper Corvette and OPV84 years in service
  5. 5152 mm howitzer M1943 Towed artillery · Uralmash83 years in service
  6. 6Antonov An-2 Transport aircraft · Hongdu79 years in service
  7. 7Beechcraft Bonanza Trainer · Beechcraft79 years in service
  8. 8D-20 Towed artillery · Barrikady Production Association79 years in service
  9. 9KS-19 Towed artillery · Votkinsk Machine Building Plant79 years in service
  10. 10BTR-40 Armoured personnel carrier · GAZ76 years in service
  11. 11S-60 Towed artillery · Krasnoyarsk machine-building plant76 years in service
  12. 12Ilyushin Il-28 Strike and bomber · Production Corporation Polyot76 years in service
  13. 13M30 Towed artillery75 years in service
  14. 14M29 Towed artillery74 years in service
  15. 15PT-76 Reconnaissance and light armour · Volgograd Tractor Factory74 years in service
  16. 16M47 Patton Main battle tank · Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant74 years in service
  17. 17De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter Trainer · de Havilland Canada73 years in service
  18. 18KRI Dewaruci Replenishment and auxiliary73 years in service
  19. 19Cape-class cutter Fast attack and patrol craft · United States Coast Guard Yard73 years in service
  20. 20BTR-50 Armoured personnel carrier · Volgograd Tractor Factory72 years in service
  21. 21Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Strike and bomber · Boeing71 years in service
  22. 22T-12 antitank gun Towed artillery71 years in service
  23. 23Lockheed C-130 Hercules Transport aircraft · Lockheed Martin70 years in service
  24. 24Lockheed U-2 ISR and electronic warfare aircraft · Lockheed Corporation70 years in service
  25. 25Hunter Fighter and multirole · Hawker Siddeley70 years in service
  26. 26Cessna 172 Skyhawk Trainer · Cessna70 years in service
  27. 27Cessna 182 Skylane Trainer · Cessna70 years in service
  28. 28Kaivan-class patrol craft Fast attack and patrol craft · United States Coast Guard Yard70 years in service
  29. 29Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Tanker · Boeing69 years in service
  30. 30Cessna 150 Trainer · Cessna69 years in service
  31. 31Boeing 707 Tanker · Boeing Commercial Airplanes68 years in service
  32. 32Fokker F27 Friendship Transport aircraft · Fokker68 years in service
  33. 33LCM-8-class landing craft Amphibious assault ship67 years in service
  34. 34Bell UH-1 Iroquois Transport and utility helicopter · Bell Textron67 years in service
  35. 35Bell 204/205 Transport and utility helicopter · Bell Textron67 years in service
  36. 36BTR-60 Armoured personnel carrier · GAZ67 years in service
  37. 37Type 59 Main battle tank · Inner-Mongolia First Machine Group Company Limited67 years in service
  38. 38Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fighter and multirole · Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG67 years in service
  39. 39M113 Armoured personnel carrier · General Motors66 years in service
  40. 40Natick-class harbor tugboat Replenishment and auxiliary66 years in service
  41. 41D-30 Towed artillery · Zavod No. 966 years in service
  42. 42Piper PA-28 Trainer · Piper Aircraft66 years in service
  43. 43M88 Recovery Vehicle Engineering and bridging · United Defense65 years in service
  44. 44Northrop T-38 Talon Trainer · Northrop65 years in service
  45. 45T-62 Main battle tank · Uralvagonzavod65 years in service
  46. 46S-125 Ground-based air defence (medium and long range) · JSC Defense Systems65 years in service
  47. 47Type 63 rocket launcher Rocket artillery and MLRS65 years in service
  48. 48Boeing CH-47 Chinook Transport and utility helicopter · Boeing64 years in service
  49. 49Schweizer X-26 Frigate Trainer · Schweizer Aircraft Corporation64 years in service
  50. 50Northrop F-5 Fighter and multirole · Northrop64 years in service
  51. 51Lockheed P-3 Orion Maritime patrol · Lockheed Corporation64 years in service
  52. 52ZSU-23-4 Shilka ISR and electronic warfare aircraft · Mytishchi Machine-Building Plant64 years in service
  53. 53Round Table-class landing ship logistics Amphibious assault ship · Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company64 years in service
  54. 54BRDM-2 Reconnaissance and light armour · Nizhny Novgorod64 years in service
  55. 55Antonov An-24 Transport aircraft · Antonov64 years in service
  56. 56BM-21 Grad Rocket artillery and MLRS63 years in service
  57. 57M107 Self-propelled artillery · FMC Corporation63 years in service
  58. 58Commando Infantry fighting vehicle · Textron Marine & Land Systems63 years in service
  59. 59North American Sabreliner Transport aircraft · North American Aviation63 years in service
  60. 60OT-64 SKOT Armoured personnel carrier · Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych63 years in service