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Manufacturing is getting worse from the U.S. Air Force having to reverse engineer parts to the U.S. Navy facing similar challenges with obsolete components and
by mainecoder 2y ago
Manufacturing is getting worse from the U.S. Air Force having to reverse engineer parts to the U.S. Navy facing similar challenges with obsolete components and diminishing manufacturing sources for its aging fleet. Boeing in decline ... the list goes on but then there is SpaceX.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> from the U.S. Air Force having to reverse engineer parts to the U.S. Navy facing similar challenges with obsolete components and diminishing manufacturing sources for its aging fleet Military procurement is a bad source from which to project all American manufacturing. You’re also comparing a quality problem (USAF) to a quantity problem (closing shipyards).
- HillRat 2y agoAlso that a lot of (specifically Navy) sourcing problems come from DOD being the only buyer of obsolete products, such as 8-bit microcontrollers used in fire control systems designed in the 1970s.
- Spooky23 2y agoIt’s sexier to build useless warships without weapons that get scrapped in months than to keep a gun or sensor working in sustainment.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoNote that publicly traded companies are incentivized by the government and wall st. to send manufacturing out of the country.