• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I remember from Churchill’s memories that he mentions as a rule of thumb (based on his experiences in both world wars) that a country needs something like 4 years to put the ammo industry up the conflict requirements… anyway, this isn’t (yet) ww2 by 2 orders of magnitude.

    • Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I incorrectly assumed we had many factories running at smaller capacities. Turns out we shuttered those to save money.

      I get things like cruise missiles are done in large batches but just assumed 155mm had several lines.