Thread: M1 Tank Factory
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Old 07-23-2014, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer View Post
I watched a documentary recently (I think it was originally linked to here in the forums) tank "building" "tools and dies" are multiple-ton, specialty machines, many of them computer controlled CNC machines. Nobody's going to build another tank factory. Not for multiple decades, not with a country with barely twenty million people left in it, who are starving, beset by plague, cut off by completely destroyed infrastructure, scattered across 4 million square miles with no remaining central gov't outside of a few enclaves and the gov't that's left is in a three-way de-facto civil war (all canon, btw.)
Hmmm. Less computer control and fewer hi-tech components 20 years ago.

Build an M1A2? Nope, probably not.

Adapt the technology and make something simpler like a WW2 Sherman or Pershing? Especially using existing components like engines? Yep.

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