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The problem with scaling up manufacturing is that the US needs to manufacture here, now. What good is importing a polish missile when Wagner is so close to the
by vGPU 3y ago
The problem with scaling up manufacturing is that the US needs to manufacture here, now. What good is importing a polish missile when Wagner is so close to the factory that they can almost make it out if they squint? It’s not like Poland has a history of getting invaded or anything, right? Why could we possibly want to continue outsourcing our production to try to fix the problem that outsourcing production caused?
- H8crilA 3y agoSorry, I meant do technology transfer. Obviously manufacturing must be (also, or even primarily) in the US.
- Aloha 3y agoa technology transfer is only slightly lower risk than restarting production on an old design. You have about half of the issues - because I can all but guarantee - no matter how good the polish missile is, and no matter how modern their production methodology is, we're gonna probably need to build it differently here than it would be built in Poland. A good example is when the US started making Merlin Engines during WWII, it amounted to a near redesign.
- wbl 3y agoWell for one when you have a stockpile you don't need more production. Secondly when the first, second, and fourth biggest air forces in the world team up against a country that can't even suppress one of the smallest you don't need MANPADS if you're on their side.
- vGPU 3y agoAs pretty much all of Europe has learned, stockpiles go quick.