Posted on 08/14/2024 8:10:55 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
You can be the best shot in the world, but your expertise won’t count for much if you run out of bullets. The same principle holds true for a country’s armed forces. Just ask the U.S. Navy. It’s getting low on munitions—yet the Pentagon is refusing to ask for sufficient supplies to replace them.
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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.
big reductions in manufacturing = offshoring by traitors.
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.
Sure, let’s publicize this.
They probably have plenty of Queers, Trannies and other weirdos which is most important.
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.
There is a worldwide shortage of nitrocellulose.
Start with that.
The democrats love it when a plan comes together.
Four more years... /s
Ships now munitions
Following the almost daily terse action reports from CENTCOM, likely more weapons are being used than most would guess.
A seacoast, but no navy? How about a Coast Guard?
“They probably have plenty of Queers, Trannies and other weirdos which is most important.”
Can we launch them at important targets?
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?
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.
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.
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