won’t it be cheaper to let South East Asia manufacture them? probably can get it done faster and cheaper.
Must lulz story in a while.
Step 1: produce missile designed to be easy to manufacture and still good enough.
Step 2: realize it’s easy to mass produce and mass produce it.
Step 3: while at it produce some launchers, or integrate with existing ones, FrankenSAM style.
Step 4: might as well integrate with existing NATO radars and command hardware.
Step 5: a typical Patriot battery now has has a bunch of extra launchers and missiles for cost effective engagement against certain targets and redundancy vs. mass attacks.
I mean during both World Wars the US often produced foreign designed military equipment exclusively for export so by no means an odd thing.
That’s excellent. New missiles with the old interfaces but modern technology are a great idea for helping Ukraine. As they are new missiles, they can have improved performance but still look like the old. For an encore, the West can then sell these enhanced missiles to Russian client states, weaning them off their strong link to Russia!
Ive been waiting for this headline forever. It wouldnt take much to take either of these things apart, have a grip of CAD monkeys draw up new prints, and get to work. Obviously its way more work than that but reverse engineering a rocket with the help of a country that still operates it would be a much easier task than starting with a blank slate. And as a perk the guidance could be massively updated.
I’ve done this in Command and Conquer by capturing the NOD Weapons Factory.
Begun the clone wars have.
Forget Western armour/MBTs and F16s, this is as close to a game changer as you get in this war. It’s very pragmatic, takes some of the better aspects of Russian kit and is, for once, not that opportunistic in that it supplies the kit Ukraine could really do with expediently and can use off the bat rather than requiring conversion and scaling first.
Great decision if this happens in anything like the volume it’s needed.
I would also recommend that a small “Easter egg” be installed: if the missiles are not fired by Ukrainian hardware or somehow fall into Russian hands, self-destruction would be a nice gimmick. Probably not easy to implement technically but effective.
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USA making analog of Russia missiles?!?!?!!?
won’t it be cheaper to let South East Asia manufacture them? probably can get it done faster and cheaper.
Must lulz story in a while.
Step 1: produce missile designed to be easy to manufacture and still good enough.
Step 2: realize it’s easy to mass produce and mass produce it.
Step 3: while at it produce some launchers, or integrate with existing ones, FrankenSAM style.
Step 4: might as well integrate with existing NATO radars and command hardware.
Step 5: a typical Patriot battery now has has a bunch of extra launchers and missiles for cost effective engagement against certain targets and redundancy vs. mass attacks.
I mean during both World Wars the US often produced foreign designed military equipment exclusively for export so by no means an odd thing.
That’s excellent. New missiles with the old interfaces but modern technology are a great idea for helping Ukraine. As they are new missiles, they can have improved performance but still look like the old. For an encore, the West can then sell these enhanced missiles to Russian client states, weaning them off their strong link to Russia!
Ive been waiting for this headline forever. It wouldnt take much to take either of these things apart, have a grip of CAD monkeys draw up new prints, and get to work. Obviously its way more work than that but reverse engineering a rocket with the help of a country that still operates it would be a much easier task than starting with a blank slate. And as a perk the guidance could be massively updated.
I’ve done this in Command and Conquer by capturing the NOD Weapons Factory.
Begun the clone wars have.
Forget Western armour/MBTs and F16s, this is as close to a game changer as you get in this war. It’s very pragmatic, takes some of the better aspects of Russian kit and is, for once, not that opportunistic in that it supplies the kit Ukraine could really do with expediently and can use off the bat rather than requiring conversion and scaling first.
Great decision if this happens in anything like the volume it’s needed.
I would also recommend that a small “Easter egg” be installed: if the missiles are not fired by Ukrainian hardware or somehow fall into Russian hands, self-destruction would be a nice gimmick. Probably not easy to implement technically but effective.