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You are laughably uninformed. None of the major weapon systems that require big manufacturing were impacted at all by the war. The Navy isn't cranking out more
by krschultz 15y ago
You are laughably uninformed. None of the major weapon systems that require big manufacturing were impacted at all by the war.
The Navy isn't cranking out more aircraft carriers, destroyers, or submarines. And they just announced they are retiring all of their cruisers early.
The Air Force lost most of it's F22 and the JSF is on the ropes. Neither got cranked up to support the wars of the last 11 years.
The Army barely got to use its M1 battle tanks and hasn't built any extra. The Bradley is in the same boat. Some of the other vehicles like the Stryker and the mine resistant trucks and upgraded HUMVEES might have gotten increased production, but those are small potatoes in terms of cost.
The Marines lost their new vehicle in the last 10 years (the expeditionary fighting vehicle).
Other than the army light vehicles and UAVs (again, small potatoes, a submarine costs $5-7 billion each) I don't see anything that has been increased by the wars. And general manufacturing and defense manufacturing are basically entirely seperated these days. There are no ship builders pumping out both commercial and military ships. As far as I know, there are no companies pumping out tanks and cars. Aircraft are the only area with overlap.
- ilaksh 15y agoI think that the wars must have at least contributed to some justification for maintenance of the current armament level. But I was talking about when the planned World War III gets kicked into high gear towards the end of this year, as false-flags or other actions force Iran to defend itself, and Russia and China are then morally obligated to get involved.