On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:59:33 -0700, Zombywoof wrote:


In another scrape for survival I think the US could do a whole bunch
of things very quickly, although we would have to ramp up a lot of our
manufacturing capability first though, or out-source the actual
building to the Chinese or somebody.

Unless we're fighting the Chinese, in which case we're gonna really
regret the outsourcing of high tech production equipment that Boeing,
Cessna, (Their new plane, the Skycatcher is actually gonna be built by
Chengdu) and our auto manufacturers gave em. I saw some footage of one of
GM's plants in China a few weeks back and when I saw the level of
automation and the high throughput, my stomach went into a knot. It won't
take much to retool for military production.



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