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SlothmanAllen said:

Double Edit: Also, China may have spent years supporting their industry, but as a country China likely had better incentives for people to work in shipbuilding. Shipbuilding in the US has to compete with dozens of other industries that pay just as good if not better and offer a far better work life balance.

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Once again SlothmanAllen nails it: you can have the best facilities with the best tools but without skilled motivated workers at those facilities using those tools, you have ... facilities, tools and no ships.

The navalists at Cdr Salamander have a plan*

Change doesn’t happen in isolation. Ideas don’t execute themselves.

People. It starts with people.

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*The navalists have a plan. China has a PLAN. And a CCG. And a maritime militia.

I knew US manufacturing was in decline but I didn't realize how far it slipped

An

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by Hunterbrook has narrowed down poor manufacturing processes and inadequate quality control as the causes of the

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in the Prop Rotor Gear Box (PRGB), which led to the crash of a U.S. Air Force CV-22B Osprey on Nov. 29, 2023, off the coast of Japan, resulting in the deaths of eight personnel. These issues were traced back to Universal Stainless, the manufacturer of the alloy used in the gear that failed on the ill-fated Osprey.

Hunterbrook’s investigation, which followed both the

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(AIB) and the internal Safety Investigation Board (SIB) reports, found a troubling mix of “toxic” personnel management and “retaliatory” practices at the manufacturing site. These factors compromised the rigorous standards essential for aerospace components, favoring increased production volumes and “high profit margins” instead.

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Words fail me...

This is just typical US. They have an if it ain't broken don't fix it mentality. Then you get lead pipes in Flint Michigan, trains without modern automated signaling with constant derailments, and things like that.
When they do replace something, often it is with the most bleeding edge technology you can think of, that quite often works worse than the old shit they had.

American company General Dynamics Land Systems showed its robotic transport platform MUTT XM and unloading from it the robot dog V60 from Ghost Robotics. Robotic machines MUTT XM are multifunctional and can be used for different tasks.

gelgoog said:

This is just typical US. They have an if it ain't broken don't fix it mentality. Then you get lead pipes in Flint Michigan, trains without modern automated signaling with constant derailments, and things like that.
When they do replace something, often it is with the most bleeding edge technology you can think of, that quite often works worse than the old shit they had.

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Just to provide more detail on Flint.

The lead pipes weren't an issue until the City of Flint switched from Detroit Water utility to a different water utility. It was a cost-saving measure. Previously, even though Flint had lead pipes Detroit's water was sufficiently treated to the point where lead leech-off was at an acceptable level. After the utility switch was complete (by building a new pipe), the new water was more acidic, leading to much higher levels of leech-off, causing an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease and other related health issues (like death).

Now I'm not saying that lead pipes are good, but there were no significant lead-related issues in the city before even with lead pipes. Flint is a classic example of regulatory agencies and local government failing its citizens.

Ursa Major expects to start large scale production of solid rocket motors next year. They claim to have test fired over 300 motors this year.

“We have, in the last 18 months, rapidly scaled our internal team and the technology of making solid rocket motors. We've static fired over 300 [motors] this year. We're rapidly scaling capacity,” said Bill Murray, Ursa Major’s chief product officer and head of solid rocket motors.

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The U.S. military’s consumption of Standard Missiles is “completely unsustainable right now in current conflicts,” Murray said. The Navy has been

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its inventory of missiles during a year of engagements in the Mediterranean and Red Sea regions.

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Murray didn’t say how many motors it intends to build in Colorado, but said they aim to be in production on “multiple motor programs in 2025 and 2026.” The Lynx process can produce motors between two and 22 inches in diameter, which includes missiles like the Stinger, Javelin, GMLRS, and air-defense interceptors.

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Here is an infographic of current production versus expected production of selected missiles between FY23 and FY29

If true then they just went full retard. Air dominance with a subsonic airframe with zero maneuverability.
What will be the 7th generation air dominance? A blimp?

CasualObserver said:

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Use of ultra long range missiles and act like a nexus for CCA drones ?

Adding capacities and roles is way more dangerous for the future of the system than sticking with his intended roles...

Atomicfrog said:

Use of ultra long range missiles and act like a nexus for CCA drones ?

Adding capacities and roles is way more dangerous for the future of the system than sticking with his intended roles...

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Where do the CCAs come from? Inside the B-21? Just dump them in the sea after use? Because if they come from a land base then what's the point of using a B-21? Either a smaller aircraft can use the same bases as the CCA or such bases are indefensible in which case Raider is coming on its own.