Quantity has a quality of its own. The question is does the PRC have the tech to do so.
I suspect many of our ammunition factories are automated where possible.
But, given they have little reason to be competitive (government contracts) they may not be.
Yep. Factories and warehouses will increasingly become almost completely automated. Anyone with these types of jobs better upgrade their skills and move on. It won’t happen overnight but it will happen.
Treble: Make or become three times as large or numerous.
Can Chinese citizens buy and use ammunition?
If you tell a machine to put sixty grains of powder in a cartridge, it will do it until it runs out of powder or you tell it to.
Why would you *not* want robotic ammo production?
Back in the mid-’80s, I had a tour of a new munitions plant which manufactured 155mm artillery shells and cluster bomblets. It was probably 90% robotic or otherwise automated, from the production lines to the storage bunkers - including the transport shuttles that moved completed explosives into storage. Even then, it looked like a sci-fi movie set. There were relatively few people on-site to run the machines, all of whom worked behind blast barriers and viewed everything by CCTV.
We need this in the US for .22 production. It’s still scarce in Alaska, especially in brick size.
Unfortunately our defense prioritization is more oriented towards massaging voters for politicians,
So were the Terminator movies action thrillers or documentaries?