This is true. In 1939 the USA had less than 4,000 aircraft registered, both military and commercial. In the month of April, 1945, America produced over 4,500 aircraft in just that month alone. Even accounting for the differences in the complexity of propeller aircraft to jets, the equivalent level of production, adjusted for technology, could not be achieved by the US in 5 years. Even with the Chinese, supervised by American lawyers, programming the computers.
"This is true. In 1939 the USA had less than 4,000 aircraft registered, both military and commercial. In the month of April, 1945, America produced over 4,500 aircraft in just that month alone. Even accounting for the differences in the complexity of propeller aircraft to jets, the equivalent level of production, adjusted for technology, could not be achieved by the US in 5 years. Even with the Chinese, supervised by American lawyers, programming the computers."
Correct. We couldn't afford to build 4,500 airplanes per month at USAF prices, anyway.
The Air Force is pricing itself out of business.
The WWII manufacturing economy produced 303,713 warplanes, thousands of tanks, ships, trucks, artilary, millions of small arms, uniforms, and billions of rounds of amunition with a population of 127,000,000 and most able bodyed men off to war.... That is what I call manufacturing. Our lousy 300,000,000 (with 3/4 of our citizens are worthless) could not duplicate that today no how no way!