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SWBTATTReg

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7. Good points. If the arms being made don't return a certain % back to the manufacturer(s), then the item is not

Reply to Midnight Writer (Reply #5)

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 03:41 PM

9 hrs ago

worth making. It's got to yield lots of bucks in order to even make it. Note, it's not the capability driving the manufacturing of the item, it's the profit margin of the weapon(s) driving what's being made, a, in my mind, the wrong way to decide on what weapons to make/develop/buy.

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We are really quite f'ked. There is commercial equipment avalble to guide a tractor in a field [View all] 31j20b3 9 hrs ago OP

i'm looking at these things rampartd 9 hrs ago #1

A man with knowledge, a passport, and an ebay account 31j20b3 9 hrs ago #3

i think the more we learn ..... can't hurt to know. rampartd 9 hrs ago #6

Yes 31j20b3 8 hrs ago #8

Also shows just how versatile, low-budget, and rapidly the Ukrainians can move into getting needed weapons of SWBTATTReg 9 hrs ago #2

Yes. It's quite unsettling to me 31j20b3 9 hrs ago #4

There was an article in the Washington Monthly a few years back about how Israel was building cheap drones. Midnight Writer 9 hrs ago #5

Good points. If the arms being made don't return a certain % back to the manufacturer(s), then the item is not SWBTATTReg 9 hrs ago #7

The asymmetrical opportunities seem favorable to the angry little groups 31j20b3 8 hrs ago #10

I guess my next home won't be a Hobbit Hole after all. Ilsa 8 hrs ago #9

operated by terrorists like the US? orthoclad 3 hrs ago #11