Eh, production and individual components are such a minor thing that according to the article, it takes 30 months MAX to get the production line going again. I

Eh, production and individual components are such a minor thing that according to the article, it takes 30 months MAX to get the production line going again. In a true emergency, we could find replacement parts by spending money on design, and we could machine shop the actual production. That isnt what is happening here. This is a case of being frugal, not changing the design, and reassembling the assembly line as if nothing happened over the last few decades. No one is spending money on design here and it shows. No one wants to spend money on machine shopping these, it shows. Makes sense too, 30 months max isnt so bad when you have a stockpile, you are going to be making some during pre-production, and its not an emergency. I've seen some amazing things happen when emergencies happen. Prototype/Machine Shops will boggle your mind, but they make you pay. Disclaimer: I didn't work with the military, so I imagine there is some 'top secret' access that makes all of this worse.