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Say a country decides to build more weaponry and ammunition plants. And train more soldiers to increase the standing army size. Then the weapons manufacturers they have to build more capital plant, arrange contracts with suppliers who then have to scale up, and it takes time to hire and train people. Then once a new plant is up and running and gets its first unit of production off the lines, it takes a long time to scale production up to volume production. Just getting machine tools in doesn't happen overnight. Another example is using more mercenaries. Its not like there are a ton of mercenaries just hanging around waiting for their next order to come in. Governments have to sign long term contracts with the mercenary companies, then the mercenary companies can scale up their own organization.
The Russians are scaling up as fast as they can, and they are in a heavy duty fight in Ukraine. So now Iran is stepping in and opened another front. To divide out the West's resources and attention.
Even the North Koreans are scaling up their weapons production. As they make a lot of Soviet compatible weaponry. They are happy in North Korea as getting all these orders, they are getting cold hard foreign cash with it. And like all NE Asians, the North Koreans are very, very good at manufacturing. As their weapons production scales up North Korean trains can go all the way to Euro Russia and some go south to Iran and other Middle Easterners. Also by North Korean ships. Ammo gets eaten up fast. Say you have 100 artillery pieces and they fire on average 30 shells a day. That works out to 1 million shells a year. Those Russian Katyusha type trucks that shoot unguided rockets, they just eat up ammo.
The Russians are scaling up as fast as they can, and they are in a heavy duty fight in Ukraine. So now Iran is stepping in and opened another front. To divide out the West's resources and attention.
Even the North Koreans are scaling up their weapons production. As they make a lot of Soviet compatible weaponry. They are happy in North Korea as getting all these orders, they are getting cold hard foreign cash with it. And like all NE Asians, the North Koreans are very, very good at manufacturing. As their weapons production scales up North Korean trains can go all the way to Euro Russia and some go south to Iran and other Middle Easterners. Also by North Korean ships. Ammo gets eaten up fast. Say you have 100 artillery pieces and they fire on average 30 shells a day. That works out to 1 million shells a year. Those Russian Katyusha type trucks that shoot unguided rockets, they just eat up ammo.
