At some point, don’t know when, this will not pass the smell test.
Something else is going on.
The same can be said of the NATO standard 155 MM shell.
Ukraine is now Trench Warfare and Artillery duels.
Next, we are going to send some Dough Boys ‘Over There’ to fight the War to End All Wars and Make the World Safe for Democracy.
It’s a stalemate with no end in sight. Make Peace!
Using our old military junk to demilitarize a warmongering Russia is an excellent investment.
Actually one of the great ironies of this war is that most Russian ammunition, aircraft, missiles, tanks, rifles, and etc. were all made in Ukrainian factories that have now been destroyed.
I think the Russians had assumed that they could invade Ukraine and seize control of all of these factories without having to damage them. Now that those factories have been destroyed the Russians are faced with having to build a complete military production infrastructure in their own country.
Our neocons are anti American criminals and traitors.
As is anyone who supports them in their Ukrainian crusade.
In earlier years defense munitions production for replacing used stores kept pace with use, but that has fallen by the wayside in recent years, RDUCING the munitions budgets to pretend it is holding the line on the total defense budget.
NORMAL (from earlier years) would have continued to keep munitions replacement (due to ag and use) in the budget, and if we are “running out of arms”, that may be the case due to recent years’ defense budgets, regardless of the war in Ukraine.
https://acquisitiontalk.com/2022/05/the-state-of-army-munitions-and-modernization-priorities/
Its a common mistake to view Ukraine as a proper, organized, unified, historically self-governing country. It never has been, regardless of what the UN or neocons in DC tell you. It was born in 1991, out of the arsehole of the Soviet Union, post-communist, totally-corrupt, a cultural vacuum, dominated by Russian language, no sense of itself, and disunified
Just ready to be manipulated by Russian oligarchs, Putin, local politicians, Hunter Biden and US neocons - all for their own corrupt goals
“So just how badly are we depleting our own arsenal of military hardware as we keep sending more and more arms to Ukraine?”
Not even 0.5% was sent to the Ukes.
But can they send them more Ukrainians?
“Maybe I am ignorant but how come the Ukraine never built factories to build Soviet caliber artillery shells?”
Ukraine was more of a center for building ships, being the home of the Soviet Black Sea fleet.
I’m sure Zelensky has been stashing his money in Israel.
GOOD. Israel needs to learn RuSSia is not a trustworthy “partner” in any sense of the word.