Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "US Tanks in Storage - Several Hundred Less Tanks in the Past Year" video.

@shawnr771 European prepositioned stocks existed since the end of WWII, and the later stocks in the Persian Gulf were used in Desert Storm. Everything the US fights with must cross an ocean so the logistics got sorted long ago. Troops can be airlifted but no nation has the airlift capacity to quickly move an entire armored division. RO-RO ships are slow and vulnerable to attack.
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@jdogdarkness Congress mandated it to ensure the industrial base would exist, not to "enrich defense contractor". Why do people who don't understand manufacturing express opinions on the subject? Low rate production is the only way to preserved the specialized workforce required to expand production. One does not simply take unskilled employees and throw them into producing vehicles which are as complex as many aircraft and use many of the same production and manufacturing methods.
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@jgw9990 Oh no it shouldn't and those who clicked "like" don't know anything about ship hulls either! Hulls are wear, corrosion and fatigue items spending their lives in the most corrosive environment on earth. "Brittle fracture" is no joke. Ships are not like houses and being giant weldments have thousands of points of deterioration.
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@jgw9990 Ship hulls are not what you think they are and lose considerable metal to corrosion. Ships APPEAR strong and impressive but they really do wear out and as systems also become obsolete it makes no sense to save most of them. Hull cost is not (on a modern warship) where the money is.
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@victorzvyagintsev1325 What is your personal tank manufacturing experience at Lima?
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