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Putin Is Smiling: Is America Running Out Of Ammo To Send To Ukraine?
19FortyFive ^ | 1/13/2022 | Brent M. Eastwood

Posted on 01/13/2023 8:44:53 AM PST by whyilovetexas111

Ukraine is burning through ammunition for 155mm howitzers quickly and it is leaving the United States in a bind, according to a new report by think tank CSIS.

It could take up to five years for the industrial base to produce enough rounds to replenish American stocks.

It is not just cannon shells. Javelin and Stinger missiles could take six to eight years to normalize for the U.S. inventory.

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To: BobL

Ukraine got their money’s worth buying Hunter and the big guy... that said the next ‘war’ will be with cartels who have propositioned their armies.


21 posted on 01/13/2023 9:07:10 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: whyilovetexas111
So a system designed to produce a minimum at maximum expense is having trouble supplying a real conflict. Duh.

Simply a failure to build more capacity to produce 155mm. We're talking WWI tech here. The complexity of the computer guided systems is an issue, but again all it needs is some intelligent attention, although that is sorely lacking in the current procurement system.

22 posted on 01/13/2023 9:08:08 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: whyilovetexas111
Yup... The US is running out... They hardly have anything left...


23 posted on 01/13/2023 9:09:50 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: whyilovetexas111
From the article:

The report estimated that Ukraine is firing 143,000 shells a month or close to 4,700 rounds each day. This is unsustainable for the United States. Other militaries among the allied coalition will have to step in at some point to be the sources for artillery rounds

The United States budget is bloated with billions, perhaps trillions of dollars spent (do we actually have the money or is it just printed?) on frivolous stuff and wokeness.

It's all a matter of priorities and politics.

We could easily go to three shifts at the existing armories or even add more armories.

I don't think we'll actually run out, but we could find ourselves pressed against the wall and have to drop other important things to fix the issue.

If you look at the history of the United States, when it comes to defense, this is nothing at all new.

In the Louisiana Maneuvers (War Games) of 1941, which Patton won, BTW, as the opposition commander, many of our troops had to drive cars or trucks with cardboard signs on them saying "Tank" and some troops had broom sticks for machine guns.

Of course, after Dec 7th of the same year, we went on a crash course to make stuff. To today's democrats, we did it before, we can do it again--until we can't. Best get to work, Biden!

24 posted on 01/13/2023 9:10:34 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: whyilovetexas111

How did DOD fail to maintain mandatory minimum inventory for our own defenses?


25 posted on 01/13/2023 9:13:44 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: SpaceBar

“What utter tripe. It’s the Russians that are running out of stuff including people.”

Doesn’t work that way as the Russians have ADULTS running their military, not the Leftist Children that we’re stuck with. The Adults there do the math BEFORE committing resources, not after.


26 posted on 01/13/2023 9:14:35 AM PST by BobL
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To: Alas Babylon!

“Of course, after Dec 7th of the same year, we went on a crash course to make stuff. To today’s democrats, we did it before, we can do it again—until we can’t.”

...and we can’t, since we’ve OUTSOURCED much of our defense production base (low-level items such as electronic components, rare-earths, and raw materials) - much of it to Russia and China, so they won’t be in much of a hurry to help us. Wasn’t the case in previous wars.


27 posted on 01/13/2023 9:17:26 AM PST by BobL
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To: Mariner
"The ability to produce and supply millions of artillery rounds and more millions of bombs is the deciding factor."

I think that time, distance, energy, and manufacturing we'll decide to sworn it is in Russia's favor.

The defence industry of Russia is a strategically important sector and a large employer in the country. Russia has a large and sophisticated arms industry, capable of designing and manufacturing high-tech military equipment, including a fifth-generation fighter jet, nuclear powered submarines, firearms, and short range/long range ballistic missiles. It is the world's second-largest exporter of arms, behind only the United States.

It has been widely described as an energy superpower;[31] as it has the world's largest natural gas reserves,[32] the second-largest coal reserves,[33] the eighth-largest oil reserves,[34] and the largest oil shale reserves in Europe.[35] It is the world's leading natural gas exporter,[36] the second-largest natural gas producer,[37] and the second-largest oil exporter,[38] and producer.[39] Russia's foreign exchange reserves are the world's fourth-largest.[40] It has a labour force of roughly 70 million people, which is the world's sixth-largest.[41] Russia is the world's second-largest exporter of arms.[42] Russia also has the world's fifth-largest number of billionaires.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

28 posted on 01/13/2023 9:18:16 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: whyilovetexas111
Putin Is Smiling: Is America Running Out Of Ammo To Send To Ukraine?

Putin is in for a disappointment, the Fed Alphabet Agencies have billions of rounds they're saving to use on Americans.

29 posted on 01/13/2023 9:18:57 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: G Larry

“How did DOD fail to maintain mandatory minimum inventory for our own defenses?”

Easy, they claimed a protracted, high intensity, ground war was “non-credible”. Therefore much smaller inventories needed.

The Russians weren’t as STUPID.


30 posted on 01/13/2023 9:19:01 AM PST by BobL
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To: whyilovetexas111

The IRS bought up plenty.

They could send it on over.


31 posted on 01/13/2023 9:20:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

$850 billion a year for Defense - and USA is running out of basic 155 artillery shells, HIMARS, TOW missiles and lots of other basic gear after a mere 10 months in Ukraine - with NO US troops involved????

Just more proof of the absolute bloated, insider waste and corruption of Fed.gov, of which DOD is the worst offender.


32 posted on 01/13/2023 9:20:41 AM PST by PGR88
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To: G Larry

The DoD was probably busy making sure military members and civilian employees were up to date on the newest CBTs on diversity, equity, inclusion, and the latest pronouns.


33 posted on 01/13/2023 9:20:47 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: BobL

Yes, it works that way.


34 posted on 01/13/2023 9:21:07 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

See my comment number 24. Time, industry, distance, and natural resources favor Russian in the Ukraine War. People seem to forget that rush is the #2 to arms exporter in the world and they can make a lot of military hardware quickly.

And Russia is not going to run out of gas, they are the largest exporter of energy in the world. They have far more than they need.


35 posted on 01/13/2023 9:21:31 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: jerod

Those pretty pictures of C-17’s, Jerod, are nice, but our problem is that we’re quickly running out of anything to put in them.


36 posted on 01/13/2023 9:22:12 AM PST by BobL
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To: GOPJ

That word you are looking for is Prepositioned ... although the Cartels do have pros positioned in the US as well.


37 posted on 01/13/2023 9:24:29 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: BobL

Nah... I’m pretty sure that America has enough soldiers, equipment and weapons to fight a war anywhere in the world, at any time.


38 posted on 01/13/2023 9:28:44 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod

LOL!

Puts up photos of military transports!


39 posted on 01/13/2023 9:28:48 AM PST by crz
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To: whyilovetexas111

“what if America has to fight a war?”

Darn, you mean we might have to wait a few more years to invade some other country in the Middle East?

“China should pounce now...”

I think if we have to fight China, the whole war will be decided on the seas, not with 155mm howitzers.


40 posted on 01/13/2023 9:36:39 AM PST by Boogieman
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