It's funny how people think a post-apocalyptic landscape will be relatively flat socioeconomically. At most they think there will be small-scale warlords or Dunbar-scale anarchist communes. No. There will be deathstar billionaires with private armies and narrow-deep tech stacks.
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Anything up to early 20th century should be doable on a budget of millions and a population under 20K. The Wright Brothers built their own engine. It's when you start trying for semiconductors that you run into problems, and some things require a large resource base to achieve.
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Of course it wouldn’t be a full equivalent. For example maybe semiconductor fabs are beyond reach, but they could insure against that by buying a whole bunch and carefully storing them so they last a few generations.