"Zombywoof" wrote in message
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:16:45 -0700, tankfixer
wrote:
In article , raymond-
says...
"tankfixer" wrote in message
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In article , raymond-
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are they just going to magically appear in 10 years, full blown,
armed to
the teeth with ultra-fighters?
Yes.
Example: German 1930 to 1940.
the germans didn't have the best stuff. and there was plenty of warning.
the french built the maginot linebefore the german threat was known.
you want to do the same today.
we started then too.
the u.s. built a tank factory and it was producing tanks in less than a
year.
In 1930 Germany was a semi stable democracy that was no danger to her
neighbors.
No one really believe she would be a danger again.
Over the next ten years she build up her airforce and army to the point
that by 1940 she had taken Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France,
Belgium and the Netherlands.
Back then a fighter or tank could be designed and produced in under a
year.
To suggest that any country can do that now is absurd.
Did you mean CAN or Can't.
Given enough resources an awful lot can be accomplished. We take an
awful long time doing things right now over all sorts of debates over
money.
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.
Z, save your breath. tinkerbell will never listen. He's never been
involved in a forced project like we used to have once inawhile and the WWII
folks operated at al times. When you Federalize the US Industry, things
happen extremely fast. Like when GM started to build tanks. As the Line
kept going, they retooled as the last car came by. There were cars and
suddenly, there were tanks rolling out the same door without much of a
hiccup. Ford and Chrysler were doing the same things for the same and
different war materials. It took a matter of days, not months since the
plans to do so were already on hand as well as the tools, equipment and
people.
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