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I am. Look at the history of weapon production and sales. NK and Iran buy weapons from from abroad for a reason. Russia, US, Europe, to a lesser extent China control the vast majority of arms sales in the world. If you could just make your own weapons everyone would. They don't
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The previous gen of locally produced munitions in gaza are balloons and rockets that use sugar as a propellant, so without good dvidence it seems unlikely that they're making anything that's accurate at even 60 miles.
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Decoys are far easier to make than effective weapons. True.
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maintenance and modification are ~always the first steps toward actual manufacturing, and you usually can't tell - without extensive local knowledge - when the jump happens
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My guess is that it depends on the weapons and whether or not you're trying to keep up with your adversaries' tech. Rockets aren't high-tech, if you just want to hit "somewhere in that city over there".
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Both: lots of simple stuff is homemade (especially on the Syrian front) but in general arms manufacturing has been going through consolidation since WW2. The history of a company like BAE is essentially a continued string of mergers
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The designing a gun in your shed tradition still survives though, with Barrett’s iconic .50 cal being created by a photographer who just really wanted to fire BMG cartridgeshttps://youtu.be/iEDFn3UtVIc
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Mr. Gallagher is, with the possible exception of bomb drones, depending on what kind of sophistication we're talking about.
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I have no information whatsoever about the specifics of the situation, but I do know that the Iranian IRGC has been smuggling weapons to Hamas for a while now.
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