the challenge The desire to get home safely dwells in the back of the mind of every soldier. The battlefield provides enough mortal dangers without the soldier having to wonder whether or not the weapon they carry could injure or kill them at any moment. A single flaw in the design or fabrication of man- held weaponry could prove fatal for a soldier, leaving weapon suppliers and manufacturers no margin for error in the weapon development process. For one maker of rocket launchers, such precision became imperative when the supplier of their rocket launcher inner tubes halted production, leaving them without a supplier of this critical weapon part. The rocket launcher inner tube, like the inside of a gun barrel, must not only be an exact shape, but also strong enough to protect

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