I am skeptical that a modern automobile factory could be converted to make tanks or airplanes at any kind of scale using current designs.
The stuff is so specialized and automated now that even the workers probably wouldn't have much translatable knowledge as WW2 days. You would i guess have a supply of welders to lean on at least that would ramp up faster than someone fresh.
But I doubt a factory that makes modern cars can handle making M1 Abrams without so much additional tooling and extra equipment that you are halfway to making a new factory anyways. (they could probably handle making light vehicles like cars and bikes at least)
Maybe if we had mass production style designs that were built purpose first to get cranked out. But we don't, and there isn't profit in that for the Military Industrial Complex.
The stuff is so specialized and automated now that even the workers probably wouldn't have much translatable knowledge as WW2 days. You would i guess have a supply of welders to lean on at least that would ramp up faster than someone fresh.
But I doubt a factory that makes modern cars can handle making M1 Abrams without so much additional tooling and extra equipment that you are halfway to making a new factory anyways. (they could probably handle making light vehicles like cars and bikes at least)
Maybe if we had mass production style designs that were built purpose first to get cranked out. But we don't, and there isn't profit in that for the Military Industrial Complex.