When trucks are not important enough for the Combat Arms folks to be engaged in the PD staff, you get the trucks that Log O and MSE Ops want to do their job better, but not necessarily what the CQMS or Fd Tp WO need for their work.
The one thing that I liked about the old deuces was that they perfectly matched both the cargo handling needs at the time and the personnel transport ones.
Here's my idea.
Here's my idea.
1) Spend some of that new money to stand up a government owned plant in one or more of the disused factories in Oshawa or elsewhere in S Ontario where there are skilled workers available.
2) Design a basic SMP fleet of light (like ISV), medium (like FMTV) and heavy (like HEMTT) and set up three continuous production lines that become the foundation of all the SEV versions we need or will need (boxes, armour etc).
3) Don't ever buy a piece of civilianised thing ever again.
4) run production at levels that equip the total force (reg and res) with proper SMP vehicles, provide parts and factory level service, and replace worn out vehicles at the end of their service life.
5) increase the PYs and ARE for maintainers.
6) do it forever; improve models as you go along; see if you can find foreign customers.
Buy licences for equipment from other countries if you are going to do the above, include the right to modify the design as well.Here's my idea.
1) Spend some of that new money to stand up a government owned plant in one or more of the disused factories in Oshawa or elsewhere in S Ontario where there are skilled workers available.
2) Design a basic SMP fleet of light (like ISV), medium (like FMTV) and heavy (like HEMTT) and set up three continuous production lines that become the foundation of all the SEV versions we need or will need (boxes, armour etc).
3) Don't ever buy a piece of civilianised thing ever again.
4) run production at levels that equip the total force (reg and res) with proper SMP vehicles, provide parts and factory level service, and replace worn out vehicles at the end of their service life.
5) increase the PYs and ARE for maintainers.
6) do it forever; improve models as you go along; see if you can find foreign customers.
A government run manufacturing plant... what could go wrong?
www.worldhistory.org
Yep. Eventually everything fails. It might take a bit of time though.
"The immense commercial trade, wealth, and sea power of the Republic of Venice was rooted in the ships built in the industrial site known as the Arsenale, or arsenal. It was first established in 1104 and continued building warships, merchant ships, armor, crossbows, catapults, weapons, and artillery for eight centuries."
Arsenale: The Shipyard and Arsenal of Venice
The immense commercial trade, wealth, and sea power of the Republic of Venice was rooted in the ships built in the industrial site known as the Arsenale, or arsenal. It was first established in 1104...
Or Woolwich - 1515 to 1967.
Royal Arsenal - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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My only problem with @FJAG's solution is the same as a I have with the National Shipbuilding Plan - lack of immediacy and lack of surge capacity.
Setting up a steady-state production system is great once you have achieved the state you wish to maintain. Getting to the state means doing the other thing.
That other thing might mean buying sub-standard equipment to fill today's gap, either domestic civilian kit or foreign kit. The other thing could also apply when the enemy decides to start destroying your kit faster than you can build it.
www.ctvnews.ca
Venezuela nationalized it's oil industry... a great example of what happens when governments try to run businesses
"Even if international access were fully restored tomorrow, it could take years and incredible expense to bring Venezuelan oil production fully back online. Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA says its pipelines haven’t been updated in 50 years, and the cost to update the infrastructure to return to peak production levels would cost $58 billion.
Venezuela is home to the largest proven oil reserve on Earth, but its potential far outweighs its actual output: Venezuela produces only about 1 million barrels of oil per day — about 0.8% of global crude production.
That’s less than half of what it produced before Maduro took control of the country in 2013 and less than a third of the 3.5 million barrels it was pumping before the Socialist regime took over."
Trump says U.S. is taking control of Venezuela’s oil reserves. Here’s what it means
President Donald Trump on Saturday said the U.S. would take control of Venezuela’s massive oil reserves and recruit American companies to invest billions of dollars to refurbish the country’s gutted oil industry.
Make it Colorado ZR2s so you get some parts commonality with the ISV, and you get front and rear lockers for when they inevitably put it somewhere it shouldn't really be.
Alternatively we have the current model which is we don’t produce anything and rely on what very limited stocks we have for war. I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that we have capacity to wage a serious war for any length of time with our stores.
Alternatively you have Russia who has had such a large stock of equipment to sustain this war of attrition for over 3 years.
The old USSR that I sometimes wistfully wish would reappear never threw anything out. Think a nation of hoarders
Also reinforces AFV recognition for third world fleets.
