“It's very difficult to devote capital and costs and funds appropriations for a number of years to just refilling the magazine constantly when you have got to modernize at the same time.” “We found in our research that propulsion—both jet propulsion and rocket propulsion—are one of the areas where the DOD has the most trouble in terms of getting to the kind of scale it needs, as well as offering options to be able to build more affordable weapons that have the flexibility to adapt to battlefield conditions,” Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at Hudson and co-author of the report, said Monday. “And because things like…all these types of alloys are so difficult to work with, they're uncommon in most consumer goods, they haven't had that pressure from the consumer market to develop efficiencies and build automation, build a lot of the ways to move quicker, to drive costs down that we've seen in circuit boards and machining and sheet metal composites in almost every other area.”
Author: Meghann Myers
Published at: 2025-07-21 22:32:04
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