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12-May
roguetechie said:The production tooling for the gun ammo and feed system still exist, still have production employees trained on making them, and the production line is still in low rate production at this time.
Really? The last part of this seems incredibly unlikely. I mean, I supposed Ares could have kept the gun and ammo line open for 30 years just in case, but it seems incredibly unlikely. Nothing on their website suggests this is true. Source?
12-May
The ares line is still open and producing low rate guns and ammo for both CT programs, the RAVEN gun program which is using modified ares comvat autocannons as the test bed, and yeah it surprised me too but this is in fact true.
From what I've been able to gather ares Is at least partially owned by reed knight and was even doing ammo for Textron.
There's mentions of this in multiple dtic presentations we've discussed on this board.
Bottom line is that the facility still exists, is still staffed, and still has it's production lines intact which would be of great benefit.