The SME 3009 was introduced in 1959 and didn't change fundamentally in 2003, 44 years later. A ground-breaking product in its time, it has since been overtaken in SQ by many other arms. Hardly surprising in 62 years - it was only 65 years between man first flying in a powered aeroplane and landing on the moon (an almost incredible statistic if we did not know it to be true).
So we need to move on from the 3009.
So we need to move on from the 3009.