[buwaya]

You can certainly buy high-volume forging equipment.

https://www.shi.co.jp/english/products/machinery/forging_press/index.html

You can certainly buy them from China :) They WILL sell them to you.
https://www.yadonpress.com/home

Or, rather, from one of their US dealers

https://www.trueforge.com/About

[Reverend Wright]

Raytheon knows all about that. They admit they are dependent on Chinese subcontractors.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/raytheon-china-greg-hayes-decoupling/

[Reverend Wright]

One of this issues for these presses is the shell is forged vertically, so they need a long stroke, as well as forging force of ~ 1000 to 3000 tons.

I can't find it now, but Schuler's largest stock press could not accommodate 800mm+ stroke

That's why, for example, an automobile crankshaft forging press could not be adapted - crankshafts are forged flat

So this ends up being a custom job, which is part of the delay. (and an obvious argument that you mothball these things in peacetime, not sell them for scrap)