Ah....The reason why Uncle SAM is whining.

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Don't under estimate U.S. will. Take WWII as an example things that normally took years to build took just months. The U.S. has the technical and industrial ability, all it needs is the motivation. No country since then has even come close to pulling off what the U.S. did in just 4 short years.

apparently it doesn't have the motivation to even supply the 5-axis machining tools needed to keep its own military manufacturing afloat.

U.S. Precision Machine Tool Industry Is No Longer A Global Competetitive Force

"BIS also assessed foreign producers of five-axis machines. It found that not one of the 45 companies that are indigenous to Brazil, China, India, Russia and Taiwan use U.S. technology, parts, components or materials. China has 20 indigenous five-axis machine tool companies; Taiwan has 22. None of these companies have to deal with the types of export restrictions facing American firms. As a result, these companies are able to produce all the machine tools that are in demand in China and Taiwan, plus they are "able to produce in sufficient quantity to export to other LRCs," says BIS. "

Upstream mining and downstream processing are extremely technology intensive processes that no country can build up overnight. The US does not have the ability to violate the laws of physics. understanding our techniques takes time, designing the machinery needed to do this takes time, much less testing, then mass production. And if the US machine tool industry keeps going this way, the tools needed to make the tools to make the machines will even take time.

 

[Thomas]

apparently it doesn't have the motivation to even supply the 5-axis machining tools needed to keep its own military manufacturing afloat.

U.S. Precision Machine Tool Industry Is No Longer A Global Competetitive Force

"BIS also assessed foreign producers of five-axis machines. It found that not one of the 45 companies that are indigenous to Brazil, China, India, Russia and Taiwan use U.S. technology, parts, components or materials. China has 20 indigenous five-axis machine tool companies; Taiwan has 22. None of these companies have to deal with the types of export restrictions facing American firms. As a result, these companies are able to produce all the machine tools that are in demand in China and Taiwan, plus they are "able to produce in sufficient quantity to export to other LRCs," says BIS. "

Upstream mining and downstream processing are extremely technology intensive processes that no country can build up overnight. The US does not have the ability to violate the laws of physics. understanding our techniques takes time, designing the machinery needed to do this takes time, much less testing, then mass production. And if the US machine tool industry keeps going this way, the tools needed to make the tools to make the machines will even take time.

Just becuase the U.S. does not currently lead in certain manufacturing field that it once dominated. doesn't mean it doesn't have the knowledge. It usually has to do more with money, especially in this global economy. And no you can't violate the laws of physics. But you way underestimate for the sake of your own argument. how fast something can be brought from the drawing board to being manufactured.