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Originally Posted by itsbob  WWII many car manufacturing, truck manufacturing plants were converted into wartime manufacturing plants.
Fairly easy to convert a car manufacturing plant into an artillery manufacturing plant, or small armored vehicle plant.. or even a helo or small aircraft plant.
Most are so big, they could pick up the wartime effort and still build cars and or trucks.
Run LMTV's off of one side of their warehouse while Corvettes are coming out the other side. |
I don't know if that is still a capability. First off back in the 40's everything was hand built. Changing the line wasn't all that difficult. Now with so much automated could the robots be reprogrammed? Do they have the clearance for larger vehicles?
Next, is it realistic to think that we will get into a conflict that would require us to build 10,000 bombers or 25,000 tanks?
Lastly the equipment we build today is infinitely more complicated and complex. It is not the same as welding together tank hulls and bolting on tracks.