Posted on 08/04/2025 3:42:15 PM PDT by whyilovetexas111
After decades of neglect left its stockpiles “far too shallow,” the United States is undertaking a massive revitalization of its munitions industrial base. Spurred by the demands of supporting allies like Ukraine and Israel, Congress is pouring billions into the effort.
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"Allies"...lol. They get all our weapons, intel and money, we get all their problems, enemies and bills.
Good to see, but it will be close to a DECADE before we get substantial results. So we, at a minimum, need to prevent the Neocons from getting us into another war until then.
Rumor is 8 days. Then it’s nuclear.
BS. Trump would every factory capable making stuff as fast as possible just like the US did during WW2. Look how he got GM etc... making respirators in days during the covid scam days.
“BS. Trump would every factory capable making stuff as fast as possible just like the US did during WW2.”
Thanks for the LAUGH!!!
“”””After decades of neglect left its stockpiles “far too shallow,” the United States is undertaking a massive revitalization of its munitions industrial base. Spurred by the demands of supporting allies like Ukraine and Israel, Congress is pouring billions into the effort.””””
A great benefit for America and our Western and Pacific allies since all of us saw the same thing from this invasion, Putin didn’t anticipate all these years of being completely tied up in Ukraine while the forces opposed to him have had all the same years to come out of their 2021 stagnation and dormancy, and set out to fix their military deficiencies and weaknesses, while all the time observing and learning from his Ukraine quagmire against his creative and resourceful neighbor and all the lessons to be learned from it.
WIKI
The Munitions of War Act 1915 ended the shell crisis and guaranteed a supply of munitions that the Germans were unable to match. The government policy, according to J. A. R. Marriott, was that,
No private interest was to be permitted to obstruct the service, or imperil the safety, of the State. Trade Union regulations must be suspended; employers’ profits must be limited, skilled men must fight, if not in the trenches, in the factories; man-power must be economised by the dilution of labour and the employment of women; private factories must pass under the control of the State, and new national factories be set up. Results justified the new policy: the output was prodigious; the goods were at last delivered.
“The labour demands of the munitions industry were met by an estimated one million munitionettes[women working in the munition plants]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Crisis_of_1915
“At the start of the War munition filling was carried out at Woolwich Arsenal, however it was soon realised that a massive increase in production of munitions was required. A 2015 study by Historic England looked into the 170 National Factories created in England by the Ministry of Munitions in the early part of WW1 (covering 174 locations)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_factories_in_the_United_Kingdom
The first side to start losing badly will go nuclear.
That’s likely within 3 days.
Hilarious. What factories? You don’t just print munitions in the high school lab 3-D printer.
Much could be done but there are supply restrictions to consider and overcome.
I do not know why we are not making a million artillery shells and barreled actions for them a year and a million drones of all kinds as well. If we truly want the ukes in a better bargaining position like we seem to be saying, they will need them.
Democrats were actively working to destroy our military.
Traitors all.
When the Democrats staged the coup, our Strategic Petrolium Reserves were nearly if not completely full too.
“Much could be done but there are supply restrictions to consider and overcome. I do not know why we are not making a million artillery shells and barreled actions for them a year and a million drones of all kinds as well. If we truly want the ukes in a better bargaining position like we seem to be saying, they will need them.”
What kills us is a number of factors:
1. Labor Unions - They will see this as nothing more than a chance to CASH-IN, willingly withhold their work until bribed sufficiently, as they did in World War 2, by the way.
2. Dependence on imports for piece-parts and materials. Do we even have a plant that makes screws, or ball bearings, or resistors, anymore? So, yeah, China can informally set quotas on what they send us, or cut us off completely (like Rare Earth, until Trump buckled a few months ago).
3. Inability to use our own resources - again, Rare Earth comes to mind, we had capability, we shut it down. Maybe we restart, but only after several years of Environmental Review.
4. Half of the country that wants us TO LOSE - a sick culture that literally hates everything American.
5. A workforce that never passed a drug test in their lives.
6. A workforce that never learned to read, or to do math.
7. A workforce full of tattoos and nose rings.
8. A workforce that never turned a wrench or spliced a wire...but does great ‘art’ exhibits.
9. Due to the above, the plant that Taiwan is trying to build to manufacture chips in Arizona has been a disaster...seems factories like that need Asian-level education of their workforce, not African-level education of their workforce (or even lower, at this point).
10. National debt that is through the roof.
Even given all that (and much more), it’s still good start turning that ship around, but it will take a LONG TIME before there’s significant results. We didn’t hollow out our manufacturing overnight, and we’re not going to rebuild it, essentially from scratch, overnight either.
So people claiming otherwise are CLUELESS as to how bad our society has rotted under Leftist rule...but they will see the results.
Wile we need conventional artillery naval gun and small arms munitions by the thousands of tons, we more desperately need the munitions and PLATFORMS for combined Sea/Air operations against a peer, or near peer adversary.
It’s far, far more difficult to find people familiar with circuit board design, manufacture and test, integration with servos, optics and logic boards. Then there’s the firmware and software development, loads and test.
Specialty materials, supply chains...it’s a monumental task.
But it can be done.
Making a missile that can fly 100 miles at mach 5+ and hit a target the size of a F-150 that is trying to dodge...big deal.
You are living in a dream world. The factories already existed at the start of WWII, they were merely repurposed for munitions and other war paraphernalia.
BTW, where did they all end up? I remember the surge.
“”””I do not know why we are not making a million artillery shells and barreled actions for them a year and a million drones of all kinds as well.””””
Because we aren’t at war and are not on a war footing, we are building new factories and increasing production, and allowing factories in other countries to produce the few items that we see shortages of from the war, but we are doing it in a sustainable way economically.
As far as Ukraine’s needs, a lot of countries are increasing production and Ukraine is making a lot of it themselves, with more foreign companies headed to Ukraine to build plants.
The American weapons industry is designed to maximize profits to the MIC and therefore kickbacks to Congress. Actual production of weapons is strictly secondary.
You are correct but I took the rhetoric from Bidens handlers and lately President Trump to heart that we meant we would do or facilitate doing what the Ukes needed to win. Which means millions of artillery shells and field pieces and millions of drones. It shouldn’t be spoken in earnest if it isn’t meant to happen. We can debate whether it’s a good plan but stop saying shit that isn’t meant to be. It sows confusion and not the helpful kind.
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