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: 0.206s | 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. kakacik ◴[12 Nov 25 08:01 UTC] No.45897489[source]▶

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Drones all the way, they go through roughly 1 million a year and this number keeps increasing as time goes.

Artillery was more decisive till cca 2023 when switch to new warfare model happened. Its still important, but not #1. You have (ukraine-made since US switchblades proved inefficient overpriced piece of shit) drones now that have 2-3x the reach, can carry same/bigger payload, steer them till last second, some can come back home for reload. Drone teams are much smaller and more agile compared to artillery, they can drive around in normal SUVs.

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