<story><title>300k airplanes in five years</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treme</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csis.org&amp;#x2F;analysis&amp;#x2F;china-outpacing-us-defense-industrial-base&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csis.org&amp;#x2F;analysis&amp;#x2F;china-outpacing-us-defense-ind...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;China is heavily investing in munitions and acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the United States. China is also the world’s largest shipbuilder and has a shipbuilding capacity that is roughly 230 times larger than the United States. One of China’s large shipyards, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, has more capacity than all U.S. shipyards combined.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;U.S. Defense Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;features.csis.org&amp;#x2F;preparing-the-US-industrial-base-to-deter-conflict-with-China&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;features.csis.org&amp;#x2F;preparing-the-US-industrial-base-t...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s an underappreciated fact of history: in WW1 the US was so ill prepared that it had to borrow rifles from France.&lt;p&gt;People now take for granted that &amp;quot;the sleeping giant&amp;quot; was going to awake after being attacked. But in WW1 the US was also the largest economy in the world, and it did not transform overnight in a weapons manufacturing behemoth, like it did in WW2.&lt;p&gt;If a conflict with China ever comes to pass, it is not at all predestined that the US will repeat its WW2 feat rather than its WW1 experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atleastoptimal</author><text>I don’t understand why the US voluntarily gave up its significant advantage in manufacturing. Is it just because it would be impossible to have an industrial base in a world where Asia exists and can produce everything that could be built in the US for 1&amp;#x2F;5 the cost? In every universe where the US dollar is significantly stronger than the next greatest probable superpower, will that next greatest probable superpower always be in a perfect position to exploit this disparity and become the de facto world leader in heavy industry?</text></comment>
<story><title>300k airplanes in five years</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treme</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csis.org&amp;#x2F;analysis&amp;#x2F;china-outpacing-us-defense-industrial-base&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.csis.org&amp;#x2F;analysis&amp;#x2F;china-outpacing-us-defense-ind...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;China is heavily investing in munitions and acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the United States. China is also the world’s largest shipbuilder and has a shipbuilding capacity that is roughly 230 times larger than the United States. One of China’s large shipyards, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, has more capacity than all U.S. shipyards combined.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;U.S. Defense Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;features.csis.org&amp;#x2F;preparing-the-US-industrial-base-to-deter-conflict-with-China&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;features.csis.org&amp;#x2F;preparing-the-US-industrial-base-t...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s an underappreciated fact of history: in WW1 the US was so ill prepared that it had to borrow rifles from France.&lt;p&gt;People now take for granted that &amp;quot;the sleeping giant&amp;quot; was going to awake after being attacked. But in WW1 the US was also the largest economy in the world, and it did not transform overnight in a weapons manufacturing behemoth, like it did in WW2.&lt;p&gt;If a conflict with China ever comes to pass, it is not at all predestined that the US will repeat its WW2 feat rather than its WW1 experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyre</author><text>They’d need to switch to aircraft carriers and fast. The US has 11. China has 2. They are expensive, require specifically trained crews, and air superiority counters all of that shipyard capacity.</text></comment>