No worries, if there’s a war the DoD will quickly convert EV factories to tank production.
In a lost land in another time.
No worries. We can always buy tanks from China.
It was the great manufacturing prowess which made America great, but for long while, US businesses were outsourcing anything they could.
Now, the chicken are coming back to roost!
There is a heavy manufacturing plant near me, in Muskegon, Michigan. Teledyne Continental Motors, that still refurbishes ours and all kinds of tanks and armoured vehicles at Government request. It is a shadow of it’s former self, when it made tanks and aircraft engines for our military.
How did they expect to produce tanks in the future? Have China do it?
Tanks are just targets given modern weapons. The marines gave up their tanks and so should the army.
Hey, no problemo. The US can just get China to supply all the military equipment we need if we ever go to war against China. Hell, Raytheon is already getting them to produce parts we need for our military equipment so what could possibly go wrong. Seems to me many American Industry CEOs are abandoning America’s industry to line their own pockets by outsourcing business to foreign countries. Use to call people like that traitors.
My old employer, TAN Books and Publishers Inc., used to operate out of a former tank parts facility on Rockford, Illinois . . . 400,000 square feet. WAY more than what we needed, but the company founder had big dreams. Old style building with lots of windows integrated into the otherwise flat roof to let in natural light. Last I know it was used for storage, largely by Owens Corning.