• PugJesus@piefed.social
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    13 days ago

    Man, this is a war in which artillery ammunition has seen severe supply shortages, not delivery shortages.

    Everything has a cost.

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      12 days ago

      Yes, for those you need quality steel and machine it with precision, every single one. You can not simply make a larger reactor to scale production 10x.

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        12 days ago

        Yes, for those you need quality steel and machine it with precision, every single one. You can not simply make a larger reactor to scale production 10x.

        For artillery ammunition?

        Fuck, man, artillery shells are made to fired in the thousands. Dumb rounds, at least, require no such level of precision - and, for that matter, making a ‘larger reactor’ is an oversimplification of the process necessary to scale the production of explosive material.