3 June 2026
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The Antimony Trap: The Silent Saboteur of Defence Supply Chains
The structural architecture of Western military readiness rests upon a gaping vulnerability: the absolute reliance on antimony (Sb) to sustain basic kinetic output. Weapons systems require mass. Pure lead, while ballistically dense and highly malleable for industrial-scale manufacturing, rapidly deforms under the catastrophic thermal and pressure spikes of rifled barrel ignition. This structural failure introduces…