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The U.S. Navy is Running Dangerously Low on Munitions
National Security Journal ^ | 8/14/2024 | Jim Fein

Posted on 08/14/2024 8:10:55 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

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To: central_va

I was one of the “victims” of the “peace dividend”.
I was in aerospace - working on metrology systems for many of the aerospace manufacturers of the time.
I had to change careers in 1991. No real hardship in my case, I did great. Others didn’t.

The 1990s is when the big reductions in manufacturing capacity happened. This is a very old situation.


41 posted on 08/14/2024 10:49:07 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

big reductions in manufacturing = offshoring by traitors.


42 posted on 08/14/2024 10:51:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jim Noble

The US certainly can make bombs and missiles, and it does. The problem is it cant make them as fast as the Navy thinks its going to need them.

The way to fix that is to place large multiyear standing orders. That will justify expanding capacity.


43 posted on 08/14/2024 10:53:35 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: whyilovetexas111

Sure, let’s publicize this.


44 posted on 08/14/2024 11:00:20 AM PDT by FrogMom (Time marches on....)
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To: FrogMom

They probably have plenty of Queers, Trannies and other weirdos which is most important.


45 posted on 08/14/2024 11:03:37 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: central_va

Not offshoring really. There were a bunch of mergers and facilities were combined or abandoned. Making less with less.

For instance the old McDonnell Douglas (ex Northrop) plant in Hawthorne CA, is currently the SpaceX factory where they make the Falcon 9. In the old days they assembled fighters there, the last one may have been the prototypes of the YF-23, competitor to the F-22.


46 posted on 08/14/2024 11:08:22 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: whyilovetexas111

There is a worldwide shortage of nitrocellulose.

Start with that.


47 posted on 08/14/2024 11:46:45 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: whyilovetexas111

The democrats love it when a plan comes together.

Four more years... /s


48 posted on 08/14/2024 12:46:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: bgill

Ships now munitions


49 posted on 08/14/2024 3:04:37 PM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, ABORT BABIES, HARRIS-WALZ DEPRESSION. )
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To: buwaya

Following the almost daily terse action reports from CENTCOM, likely more weapons are being used than most would guess.


50 posted on 08/14/2024 3:23:15 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: laplata
Ukraine doesn’t have a navy.

A seacoast, but no navy? How about a Coast Guard?

51 posted on 08/15/2024 7:03:22 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: Colt1851Navy

“They probably have plenty of Queers, Trannies and other weirdos which is most important.”

Can we launch them at important targets?


52 posted on 08/15/2024 11:26:53 AM PDT by FrogMom (Time marches on....)
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To: Alter Kaker

I guess the semi-secret 60,00 dollar question is what are cost effective drone defences? What do they look like and consist of, and how fast can we start mass-producing and improving them?
I.E., A re they jamming the drone communications? Or using a C.I.W.S. type shoot-down system at closer ranges? Interceptors that detonate close enough to the incoming drone to at least disable it or throw it off course? Bombing the country(s) making and supplying the drones?
Some combination of all these?


53 posted on 08/15/2024 11:28:14 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: desertsolitaire

I think it’s a combination of CIWS and large numbers of defensive FPV drones. Others may have better ideas. And you’re not gonna bomb countries that make drone components unless you want us to declare preemptive war on China.


54 posted on 08/15/2024 12:26:34 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

Thank you and point taken. I was forlornly hoping that perhaps Iran was also making them in big numbers and we might take out two or three fir one with action there.


55 posted on 08/15/2024 2:31:56 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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