Pre-nuclear wartime production.

[Olefin]

I think the US gave up as much equipment as they did primarily because outside of the Russian forces in Alaska and Texas there wasnt much need for heavy armor at home. The Mexican forces didnt have much left and what they had was basically mostly light armor

Now if they had known they were about to face a home grown enemy they may have changed their minds about that

Some of it as we discussed must have got sent to CENTCOM (thus explaining the larger tank numbers in the US units there after Omega and the reinforcements arrived from Europe as seen in the RDF Sourcebook) but they left the vast majority of it in the hands of the Germans - basically as compensation for taking what was left of the German and possibly the Danish merchant marine with them and for the oil necessary to get them all home.

[Olefin]

By the way one thing to keep in mind too is that the US Army Depots at places like Red River and Anniston would have been very busy trying to get as many older stored tanks as possible back into trim to be used by either our allies (M48's for the Turks for instance) or to be used as replacements or even to add some armor to the light divisions that were being formed - i.e. I would rather have a battalion of old M48 tanks to give me some armor than none at all.

And there were a significant amount of older tanks in the US that could have been used long before they had to start raiding museums to get armor

[chico20854]

Attached is a summary from a 1987 Congressional Budget Office report of what weapon production rates were at the time...

It too will go on my new website!

[Olefin]

M-2 Bradley 540 792

Keep in mind that we had higher production rates than that if you are looking at either reset or remanufacture of Bradleys when I was at BAE in York during the 2008-2014 time period - those rates are probably new builds

(for about a year and a half during that time period between the reset and remanufacturing lines we were processing over 125 a month at the height of the effort)

[raketenjagdpanzer]

I still wanna see my M70A2 Puller in the unofficial official non-canon canon weapons timeline

[mpipes]

And those rates Chico quotes are not the MAXIMUM production rate.

Was not Anniston able to produce M-1s as well as refurbish them? I know for my game, I had two intact M-1 production lines in Anniston as well as two production lines and a refurbishment/repair line at Lima. I used the V2.2 timeline with production beginning to ramp up to wartime after the invasion of Belarus.

[Webstral]

Some of this discussion is covered in some detail elsewhere in this collection of threads. I think there's room for flexibility in the numbers by the time we get to Jan 97. By that time, the war will have been on for almost 18 months. Which US production lines are functioning at what capacity will be based on what was happening in July 1995 but will be subject to whatever decisions one imagines the DoD and Congress making after that. We would sell some items in massive quantities. We would sell others in limited quantities. China would not be the only market, necessarily. If other US customers get swept up in an arms race, sales of M1 could go up. One would have to settle definitively on a set of political developments in late 1995 and early 1996 to have a basis for imagining how production of the various arms in question would be affected.