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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by hef19898 on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:11PM (#38917443)
True, maintaining an industrial base in the defence sector is hard. Demand is usually, luckily, rather low. Technology is pretty advanced, making ot impossible to just repurpose existing industrial sites as was done during WW2.
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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by actionfromafar on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:02AM (#38938893)
Civilian industry could build a metric shit-ton every day of the equivalent of the Iranian shaheed drones. If the political will was there to repurpose civilian industry.

Yes, they can easily be shot down, but if several hundreds keep coming every day, the defences will be overwhelmed. It's already a war of attrition and Europe could easily win it, but it's mostly sitting on its ass.

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