@nelson26141@coolhanmatt@Osint613 the cheapest spitfire replica to make, globally, which is a 1/2 scale aircraft, is about 1million.
At that point just use surplus piston trainers for less, and are more capable airframes.
@nelson26141@Osint613 I mean more or less thats what they are doing, but instead of a five million dollar war bird its a several hundred thousand dollar trainer that less people care about or want.
@DrInsensitive yeah when you cant reliably hit someone at 25 yards and you are legally liable for every bullet rifling is pretty fucking important, also, rifled slugs dont work in SBS's. ALSO ALSO
when talking about cost
Barrel rifling has a per unit cost of maybe 10 bucks.
@amerpipedream Small business owner here, specially a small business in manufacturing.
Youre absolutely wrong, tariffs are only hurting company's that use off shore manufacturing. They are protecting those of us who actually value american labor.