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FarCenter

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12. Everything can be made by the military industrial complex

Reply to Egalitarian Thug (Reply #10)

Wed May 23, 2012, 10:40 AM

May 2012

Parts are manufactured in small lots at very great cost.

Therefore, the economic incentive to substitute a part from a commercial supplier that has been re-marked to look like the US MIL-spec part.

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