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Conventional munitions industrial base

A brief history of the munitions industrial base, and the importance of GOGOs

November 24, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

During the first few years of World War I, European nations modernized weapons with machine guns, tanks, airplanes and larger artillery, leaving the American CMIB […]

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