Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bellcore!att!cbnews!cbnews!military
From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Wartime surge production of supplies
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.015054.3895@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 01:50:54 GMT
Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker)
Organization: The U. of MD, CP, CAD lab
Lines: 18
Approved: military@att.att.com



From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
How long does it take to produce the following items? How many production lines
are available for "surge" capability? (Stop laughing so hard...)

	- Maverick missile
	- Hellfire missile
	- HARM anti-radiation missile
	- Tomahawk cruise missile (land-attack/conventional version)
	- General cluster munitions and iron bombs. 

I realize some items (HARM comes to mind) are run with two production lines
with the winner of the contract getting 60%/loser getting 40%; others are done
on a "winner take all" basis.

In a conventional war with Iraq, we'll be going through a LOT of munitions
very quickly; anyone heard if DoD is cranking production lines?