There is a story about this on Reuters, which is behind a paywall, though this story is about the same topic.
Our Demented Emperor thinks that he can just wave his golden wand and magically increase production of complex weapons. It's not that simple. All someone has to do is look at the history of the Second World War and see how long it took to ramp up the production of weapons both small and large. No one defense company makes every part that goes into a weapon system. They all depend on a network of suppliers who may have their own issues when it comes to ramping up production ten or twenty-fold. And, as anyone who has even a smidgen of experience in the manufacture of things, greatly increasing production often comes at the cost of a decrease in quality.
What gets me is that even the experts in Fort Fumble greatly underestimate the burn rate of munitions in wartime. They do it every freaking time. I suspect that's because it's politically unpalatable to tell the politicians what they need to spend a shitload more money to build up a stockpile and to maintain it. I know nothing about Tomahawk and cruise missile maintenance, but doughnuts to dollars says that you can't keep them in a storage tube for ten years and expect the jet engines to work on demand.
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Everybody wants to design cool stuff (rockets!) on CAD. Nobody wants to get dirty on the factory floor.
We could hire Ukrainian consultants to teach us how to make improvised drones and cruise missiles, then put America's welfare leeches to work cranking them out! It's a win/win win for America!!
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The fy26 DOD budget is $858.9 billion in base discretionary spending for the Pentagon, exceeding the initial request by roughly $10.6 billion. This, combined with roughly $151.5 billion in additional mandatory reconciliation funds, totals over $1 trillion in potential defense-related spending for FY26, focusing on accelerating munitions production, modernizing, and expanding Indo-Pacific deterrence.
And don't try and blame it on the Democrats, fy25 was over $800 billion.
Perhaps the pentagon "leadership" is fucking incompetent.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Sure were a lot of fast movers coming out of Melbourne Int. over the weekend. Our house is in the flight path and there were several screamers del ivering parts im sure, as this whole area is full of those type contractors...
Why? What does it do/not do?
My core assumption is that everything we do online is stashed away, in some form, *somewhere*. I do not expect a browser to protect me from the sort of attention that the current state of affairs here in the US suggests that many of us might eventually be getting.
Surely nobody really thinks all those concentration camps were built *just* for unauthorized immigrants, do they? Nah, just a convenient cover and funding source to get the needed infrastructure in place for what they hope to implement later on.
Paranoia? Maybe, but how many of those mid-level military commanders proclaiming that Trump is divinely appointed will refuse an order to stage a military coup to appoint Trump as Emperor of the Holy Empire of the Americas (or whatever he decides to call it)?
Even so, even though I'm happy with Firefox, I still have Brave and Floorp (a Firefox fork) installed, in case something goes really sideways with it.
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