heavy_mech
RKI- Reasonably Knowledgable Individual
"Parts going east or south" makes no sense to me.
So e/77 parts start showing up in Steyr production pretty significantly. Obviously the inspectors didn't travel south, the parts did. There are many documented examples of parts being shipped east or south to fill in for lost of capacity due to whatever circumstances. Czech facilities start using and then almost exclusively use MO stamped bottom metal. Obviously there was a reason for this. MO had excess capacity and the Czech plants never acquired the stamping dies?