Why can the chinese make artillery shells but the Americans cant?
artillery is obsolete, same as tanks. drones outrange any gun and hence they can hit them without being hit by them
>>540542856It's the fault of corporations outsourcing basically all manufacturing to the third world for decades just so they can maximize profits. Sometimes, and especially when it comes to defense, it pays in the long-run to do things more expensively at first but that couldn't matter less to finance bros looking to maximize short-term gains in the name of fiduciary responsibility.
>>540542856The subtitle of the article explains it. "High risk" plan to use old machinesAmerica is cheapo and lacks either the ability or the desire to build new high-end facilities. Cost-cutting corpos would prefer to cut corners
>>540543781Unions made american labor unaffordable.
>>540543781That's why Trump is doing the tariffs and it's based.>>540543880no it was about rushing production, so they took that risk saar
>>540544335Unions accounted for maybe 30% of all labor 60 years ago and has been steadily dropping since. Did you get that answer from the Jack Welch school or short term economics?
>>540544727>Unions accounted for maybe 30% of all labor 60 years ago and has been steadily dropping since.No shit. Because all their jobs got outsourced to China for the reason the anon said. They destroyed themselves.
>>540542922This isn't a video game, anon... learn about modern battlefield management, JADC2, etc. All units have advantages and disadvantages which is why they work together. Calling one thing obsolete because something else is a danger to it is retarded, because you would have to call literally everything obsolete.
>>540545029>This isn't a video game, anonit actually kinda is though bro. drones have taken over everything and are operated with VR goggles and a gaming controller. probably a lot of fun too
>>540544774Defense industry at its peak was in the 80s. 90s saw significant cuts which triggered divestment. The last 25 years of our forever wars were asymmetrical and not overly resource consuming. All these mil manufacturers realized the military will buy over priced over engineered bullshit and put their efforts into shit that ends up in the batcave. The us doesn't manufacture the basic shit like gunpowder and aluminum (i know it's minded, fuck off) and had been relying on imported components forever. Funn fact, there are millions of tons of Russian gunpowder just sitting in places like Virginia and Montana no one can use because of the sanctions against russia
>>540542922artillery is just another deployment system for drones. Sure dumb artillery is clumsy but guided artillery shells have existed for over 50 years. Now we have Friend or Foe ID systems when a shell can choose its airburst distance based on the proximity of friend troops even choosing to not detonate near friendlies.You're arguing for propeller over ballistic deployment. We need all types of drones including flying artillery drones launch little drone artillery shells. We need drone cruisemissiles deploying little drone submunitions. We need rifle-propelled bullet drones which steer themselves toward targets. We need ornothopter drones which fly like birds in disguise and silence.
>>540545029sorry anon but today cheap chink drone from aliexpress with the optical fibre spool also from aliexpress can hit all of them.. and if you are in doubt use many of them at once...
>>540545029>This isn't a video game. Real life warfare is balanced so that no weapon is nerfed so much that it becomes useless, and fits into the rock-paper-scissors meta.
>>540545275gosh. sounds like no one is celebrating...
