Army two-star general talks Watervliet expansion, finding secondary cannon tube producers
The service believes it could have multiple sources forging cannon tubes within 12 to 18 months.
The service believes it could have multiple sources forging cannon tubes within 12 to 18 months.
These single points of failure already limit military modernization and potentially could disrupt operations in a crisis. That's especially true if production needed to ramp up urgently for a major war, a subject the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, has publicly angsted about.