The US still has more than sufficient capacity to produce armor plate as that base was kept intact. We were getting in armor plate at BAE to support
M88A2 production and MRAP's consistently during the war as was General Dynamics for the tanks, Oshkosh for their MRAP's, etc..
You have to keep in mind that US armored vehicle production is nothing like it was in WWII - there we were making tens of thousands of armored vehicles of varous types per year - here even with the war start US production would have never reached those levels
Plus the older armored vehicles would have been needed as the US converted the training divisions to infantry divisions to give them some kind of armor. Not top of the line but a lot better than using improvised armored cars from bank cars.
And if you use the original timeline (as I do) then the Cold War never really goes away - and thus the US keeps more industrial production dedicated to the military.
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