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Critical Screw for Missiles and Planes Can Take Years to Buy
Original: This Screw Is Needed for Missiles and Planes. Buying One Can Take Years. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/bal
A New York Times report examines ball screws, precision screws essential to missiles and military aircraft, whose purchase can take years because only a handful of manufacturers make them and defense demand has surged. The shortage is becoming a bottleneck for weapons production, drawing attention to fragile supply chains in the American defense industrial base and calls to expand manufacturing capacity.
Why now: Rising weapons production driven by conflicts and rearmament has exposed a little-known chokepoint in defense supply chains.
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- This Screw Is Needed for Missiles and Planes. Buying One Can Take Years. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/ball-screws-military-production.html # Business # Defense # Manufacturing · nyt_business@robot.villas · 2
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