The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

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285 points ridruejo | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

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pragmatic ◴[11 Nov 25 15:26 UTC] No.45888352[source]▶

So fast forward five years and 50% of our war materials are produced in foreign countries?

I can't help but believe this is going to weaken our war footing because the dumbest people in the room are behind it. Thirsty Pete does not inspire confidence in the Department of War Thunder.

I mean on the surface it sounds good, but LEAN is why we had no PPE on hand during covid.

In order to have off the shelf supplies we are going have an active international arms market by definition. Is this what we want?

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monknomo ◴[11 Nov 25 21:08 UTC] No.45892879[source]▶

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from the reading I have done, something along the lines of 'bump up 155mm production' is more what is needed

not as sexy as drones, but ask the ukranians if they'd rather have drones or artillery

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1. bpodgursky ◴[11 Nov 25 22:56 UTC] No.45894037[source]▶

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Uh it's definitely drones right now. Artillery is < 10% of casualties at this point, the kill zone is close to 20km.

They're using what they have but the remaining pieces will clearly be mostly irrelevant by next year.

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