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Originally Posted by johndallman
A couple of books that may be helpful with this:
Textbook of Small Arms is a British publication from 1929, which includes a fairly detailed outline of how mass-production of ammunition is done at TL6.
Hatcher's Notebook has some material on TL6 small arms manufacture, among a lot of interesting anecdote. |
Thanks. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be available in Kindle form. Perhaps a library might have them, though I doubt it.
Best guess, how much of their resources, including, most crucially, how many man-hours of TL7 workers, would making a ton of ammunition cost the ASNs?
And how much weight are we talking about in bringing the tooling needed to do so, per cartridge type?
And would it take days, months or years to set up a plant in the new world, if they brought materials along broken down into pieces that were all smaller than 400 lbs.?
Is making or adjusting tooling to make a manufacturing plang capable of making a new line of cartridges, of an entirely diffferent caliber than everything else, a fairly simple procedure, perhaps a few months of work for a team of a dozen men? Or is it a megaproject requiring hundreds of technicians for years?
Is making TL6-7 SAPHE rounds for 13mm or higher calibers dramatically more difficult for their cultural enclave than making military ball or steel-cored AP?