>>12785858Heavy industry is actually one manufacturing type the US has gone to great lengths to keep domestic. We outsource shit like electronics, clothes, cars, basically consumer products to other countries. The whole point of having a military industrial complex and constantly going to war with random tiny 3rd world countries is to keep our heavy industry and defense contractors in business. The same thing is true of NASA. They are basically a Federal jobs program for defense industry engineers and personnel to keep them doing shit until we actually need them, hence why NASA feels the need to include ICBM derived solid rockets on their domestic rocket designs despite them being massively unsafe and totally unnesscary for manned space flight.
Despite appearances the US is smart enough to invest heavily in heavy industry and defense contractors and not outsourcing those kinds of manufacturing to other countries. Another famous example is the F35. The US literally doesn't even need it but we've wasted about 4 billion on it anyways just to keep aerospace defense on life support.
