Lima Army Tank Plant, Lima Ohio. It produces about 11 tanks a month and it’s been the same for 20 years. It’s not doing better or worse, just steady. General Dynamics Corp. stock is actually lower ($238) than a year ago ($248).
Ever since ww2 the US military has had a general philosophy of “better to have it and not need it” due to underfunded production and R&D leading up to ww1 and then again during the depression.
Also the only thing rotting in the desert are plastics cause of UV, even cloth will last a decade and a half. Reminder folks’ll put new fluids in a car and it’ll start right up in areas a lot of these tanks are stored. I imagine the same is true for most of the mothballed shit.
Where are all the tank and bullet factory jobs? Are those communities thriving?
Lima Army Tank Plant, Lima Ohio. It produces about 11 tanks a month and it’s been the same for 20 years. It’s not doing better or worse, just steady. General Dynamics Corp. stock is actually lower ($238) than a year ago ($248).
And then the tanks wind up rotting in the desert unneeded.
Ever since ww2 the US military has had a general philosophy of “better to have it and not need it” due to underfunded production and R&D leading up to ww1 and then again during the depression.
Also the only thing rotting in the desert are plastics cause of UV, even cloth will last a decade and a half. Reminder folks’ll put new fluids in a car and it’ll start right up in areas a lot of these tanks are stored. I imagine the same is true for most of the mothballed shit.
All over, and very much so