Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

Eerie similarity to the poorly-though-out GM factory in Hamtramck back in the 80's-complete w/ poorly considered purchasing of automated equipment that painted itself and destroyed the product that it was supposed to be assembling.

Remarkable as to how the creaky cold-war relics of the US Defense-Industrial complex are recapitulating the failures of late Soviet manufacturing (complete with fantastic predictions of success by the nomenklatura!); but at least the Russians would've had the good sense to just build a bigger 1950s forging facility if they needed more shells.

The remote control of machines is just the cherry on top.

> Repkon said other countries were using the machines to produce the older model. But the Army and General Dynamics could not inspect those active production lines, Repkon told them, citing customer privacy.

This is nuts. Why not put in a call to the defense ministers of every NATO country and ask about their production methods? Is it because Trump and Vance are in a snit about them?