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US asks private sector to ease bullet shortage
Financial Times ^
| May 26, 2004
| Christopher Bowe
Posted on 05/26/2004 6:53:33 PM PDT by NCjim
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To: Shooter 2.5
You posted the exact comment about a year ago. Is it possible that they don't have a cartridge problem and they are having trouble producing quality projectiles?
Possible, but the army doesn't buy bullets, and the companies they are talking about solving the problem are cartridge companies, not bullet makers.
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posted on
05/27/2004 7:03:55 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
To: NCjim
According to a requisition last week by the Army Field Support Command, the service will need 300m to 500m more bullets a year for at least five years, or more than 1.5m a year for combat and training. And because the single army-owned, small-calibre ammunition factory in Lake City, Missouri, can produce only 1.2m bullets annually...
I think there are some massive math errors here. Some "millions" should be "billions"? The army needs 1,500,000 cartridges? That's on the order of one per troop. I suspect that 1.5 billion is the correct number, and I'll bet that Lake City can produce more than 137 cartridges per hour (assuming round the clock operation.)
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posted on
05/27/2004 7:07:28 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
To: NCjim
This is what happens when all manurfacturing is moved overseas, the US can't defend itself because it doesn't have the ability to make anything anymore.
Nice job free traders.
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posted on
05/27/2004 7:22:27 AM PDT
by
jpsb
(Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Yea, send the factory to China huh?
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posted on
05/27/2004 7:24:21 AM PDT
by
jpsb
(Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
To: NCjim
According to a requisition last week by the Army Field Support Command, the service will need 300m to 500m more bullets a year for at least five years, or more than 1.5m a year for combat and training. It takes a special kind of idiot to write a sentence like this.
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posted on
05/27/2004 7:37:45 AM PDT
by
hopespringseternal
(People should be banned for sophistry.)
To: Shooter 2.5
"....The civilian companies can make cases just like they always do and the only change may be the headstamp."
Wrong.
"The problem at Lake City still may not be...."
"The problem could still be...."
Why do you keep guessing?
My input to FR is factual. Please do the same.
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posted on
05/27/2004 5:24:26 PM PDT
by
Buffalo Head
(Illigitimi non carborundum)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Ditto, they can have mine as well. Just tell me where to ship 'em.
LBT
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To: Renfield
Renfield, He is correct in using the word remedying. It is in 3 of 3 dictionaries whereas remediating is in only one of the three. Remediation is the normal form. Either could be used.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:28:24 PM PDT
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HP308
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