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The Growing Weakness of Western Artillery Capabilities
New Eastern Outlook ^ | 3/26/24 | Brian Berletic

Posted on 04/11/2024 7:32:41 AM PDT by hardspunned

After decades of waging war against impoverished nations with destitute armies, or no standing armies at all, the US has suddenly found itself in a rapidly changing world where peer and near-peer competitors are outpacing it in military capabilities. Many of these capabilities are showing up on the battlefield in places the US has until recently enjoyed relative military superiority.

One area the US has found itself particularly weak in is artillery. The conflict in Ukraine has revealed a variety of shortcomings regarding not only US artillery capabilities, but those of the collective West.

(Excerpt) Read more at journal-neo.su ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: agitprop; coldwarjunkies; hoax; killkillkillforpeace; lies; mic; neoconforeverwar; propaganda; russianpropaganda; russsianpropaganda; ukraine; warpigsunite
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Screwed by the MIC, AGAIN.

“Because the US military industrial base is dominated by private industry whom Washington serves, industry profits, not actual capabilities, remains the top priority. As long as this equation persists, the US will continue attempting to solve emerging problems by applying the same flawed mindset that is creating these problems in the first place.“

1 posted on 04/11/2024 7:32:41 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

And this is what happens.

https://x.com/tt12514/status/1771624373432033376?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA


2 posted on 04/11/2024 7:33:23 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

The same dumb Russians ... again.


3 posted on 04/11/2024 7:40:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: hardspunned

According to the United States Department of the Treasury, NEO is run by SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency. NEO is included in the EUvsDisinfo project, which tracks online disinformation.


4 posted on 04/11/2024 7:43:49 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: hardspunned
The war in Iraq was not against an impoverished nation, or a nation with no standing army.

Ukraine is not NATO. Ukraine is severely hampered by fighting a nuclear power. Ukraine is severely hampered by having an anti-American administration in the USA.

5 posted on 04/11/2024 7:44:09 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: hardspunned

The Neocons seem ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED that if you glue a red, white, and blue sticker on a decades-old weapons system, then it will then be FAR SUPERIOR to anything recently developed by Russia or China (and probably Iran and North Korea by now), hence no need to consider what the rest of the world was doing while we spent our BILLIONS modifying Tridents so that women could take a shower in them.


6 posted on 04/11/2024 7:44:24 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: hardspunned

Looks like a standard US/NATO 155 having a breech explosion!


7 posted on 04/11/2024 7:45:35 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: hardspunned

I worked for General Dynamics which makes powder. The problem is The Peace Dividend. When the cold war ended the military reduced their bullets and bombs buying so dramatically the companies making them would have gone bankrupt they were saved by Congress. But the lack of big buys meant the production capacity decreased.


8 posted on 04/11/2024 7:46:16 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: ansel12

“According to the United States Department of the Treasury, NEO is run by SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency. NEO is included in the EUvsDisinfo project, which tracks online disinformation.”

Yep, checks out - he criticizes the condition of the US Military and thus he MUST be on the payroll of Russia (like most other FReepers, by the way), because RUSSIA IS EVERYWHERE!!!


9 posted on 04/11/2024 7:58:32 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: ansel12

Do you doubt the veracity of the article? I assume you have been paying attention to what has been going on the last two years. What specifically is incorrect in the info presented? We know you take umbrage at any info presented without your Uniparty, MIC, Biden Administration seal of approval. The puzzling thing is you don’t get a dime from the MIC for selling out our troops in the field and the American taxpayer like your DC masters do.


10 posted on 04/11/2024 8:02:24 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

The thing about Brian is that he ONLY uses Western sources, and sources considered ‘credible’ by Zeepers, like Politico, for example. It’s all out there, it can all be verified - all Brian does is aggregate what is written by THE WEST.

But since the Ruzzians are everywhere, I guess they also control Politico and his other Western sources - because some clown in the Biden Administration implies such.


11 posted on 04/11/2024 8:05:49 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: hardspunned

I couldn’t see the info because Malwarebytes blocked the site, that is why I looked up the site and found it is operated by the Russian intelligence agency SVR.

I did see the video before Redditt blocks it for me, it looks like those guys are prepared for that piece to blow.


12 posted on 04/11/2024 8:07:16 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: hardspunned

13 posted on 04/11/2024 8:14:46 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: hardspunned

Berletic knows what he is talking about.

This isn’t pro Russia, it is a warning to America that it needs to get wise if it wants to do war with Russia and China as we have people actively pushing for it ad nauseam.

Being arrogant and thinking you are the best when you are not is going to potentially get soldiers killed. Recognizing reality is the way to vastly improve.

Zeepers refuse to see the truth because they are locked into pretending Ukraine is winning using our weapons that we have sent that require too much labor and have too many bells and whistles.

They aren’t.


14 posted on 04/11/2024 8:31:09 AM PDT by dforest
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To: hardspunned

All of the weaponry that NATO sent to Ukraine...all of it...were things we had either mothballed or slated for disposal.

None of our defense postures have been impacted. None of them.


15 posted on 04/11/2024 8:37:10 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: PIF

We need bigger bombs to kill others, abortion isn’t keeping us safe enough.


16 posted on 04/11/2024 8:50:52 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: hardspunned; BobL
Oh boy, another Russian mouthpiece site! The only problem with US artillery is that we haven't produced enough of it and that we have focused only on the 155mm caliber rather than faster-moving and potentially armored medium caliber systems and dedicated heavier General Support artillery and recently, some erroneous military thought has been to nearly abandon tube artillery over missiles.

We have made huge advances in precision and lethality and some moves towards more automation but we are hardly behind Russia or China in our overall abilities.

Cutbacks in funding for artillery ammunition production is our only immediate issue right now.

Anybody who wastes time believing Russian propaganda bots has too much time on their hands/easily deceived.

17 posted on 04/11/2024 9:02:05 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: DarthVader
"Looks like a standard US/NATO 155 having a breech explosion!"

Uh huh.

1. Nothing is visible of the weapon system, so how did you determine that it was a NATO system - other than the Russians saying it was?

2. A breech explosion would have evaporated the guy yanking the lanyard and those guys covering their ears wouldn't be standing there either.

You amateurs annoy me.

18 posted on 04/11/2024 9:05:37 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: hardspunned

“ Do you doubt the veracity of the article.”

Yes. Here’s why:

New Eastern Outlook Contact:
Address: 12, Rozhdestvenka Street, office 111, Moscow

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19 posted on 04/11/2024 9:06:05 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Chainmail

I’m very familiar with the carriages and chassis we have. Having worked on then.


20 posted on 04/11/2024 9:11:32 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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