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Posted on 02/12/2026 8:56:58 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Retired British Army Col. Richard Kemp, who commanded U.K. forces in Afghanistan in the early 2000s, is warning about the current sad state of his country’s military.
In a Wednesday piece for The Telegraph, he wrote that the British military has an alarmingly low level of ammunition on hand.
“Knowledgeable observers have suggested that our munitions stocks — from rifle bullets and artillery shells to long range missiles and drones — would see out only about a week of intensive fighting,” Kemp recounted.
“That’s even taking account of the fact that our Armed Forces are now very small, having been repeatedly hollowed out by successive governments. Even the handful of soldiers and tanks we could put into the field would be out of ammo in a matter of days,” he added.
The combat veteran contrasted that position with the United States, where, “According to a recent contract announcement, the US will raise production of the well-known, very powerful Tomahawk cruise missile to ‘more than 1,000’ per year.
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He’s broadcasting that UK military is low on ammo??!
Loose lips sink ships.
true that.
or Hotel Nato is a convenient ghost of the EUSSR’s imagination. still we must continuously haunt the penthouse suite. because...
to paraphrase the song:
we can check out anytime we like, but we can never leave.
right Mr. President?
Why are we buying 1000 tomahawks when they are 30 year old tech easily defeated by close in air defense. We should be spending those billions on cheap, effective drone and hypersonics.
“The Soviet Union formally dissolved on December 26, 1991.”
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should have been dissolved shortly thereafter.
American taxpayers have been getting shafted for 35 years.
They have been upgraded with advanced technology.
The UK's problem, in keeping with most of Europe, is essentially economic because it has no money. But it should not need money for arms, beyond the increased expenditures already budgeted in this difficult environment, for the immediate future.
Wasn’t the EU going to kick us out of NATO? What happened to that plan?
Everybody knows
They do have a nuclear deterrent
Not true....Russia makes about 10 times the no of 155mm artillery ammo than the USA.
After WWII Russia kept the production lines active,
Now USA has to purchase 155mm ammo from Turkey and South Korea.
The Army — in response to diminishing stockpiles as it supported Ukraine’s defense against Russia — set a goal to produce 100,000 155mm artillery rounds per month by this October.
The service opened a number of new facilities to support this endeavor — and as one Army official stated, “We haven’t seen this level of investment in our industrial base since World War II.”
However, the Army is going to fall short of its goal. Service spokesperson Steve Warren told reporters in July that the Army is not expecting to produce 100,000 155mm rounds per month until mid-2026.
In November, the Army awarded a $435 million contract to Repkon USA to establish a production facility in Graham, Kentucky, for TNT — the primary explosive fill for 155mm shells.
“We stopped making TNT in the U.S. in 1986, and we were buying from the Russians. We were buying from the Ukrainians,” Reim said. “Obviously, the Russians aren’t a source anymore,” while a Ukrainian production facility was destroyed early on in the war.
The Army is dependent today on Polish TNT and has also sourced it from Australia, South America and Asia, he said.
Like we didn’t already know this. 🙄
The UK only has about 25 working tanks.
Hey Argentina, did you hear that. The Malvinas are for the taking.
And what do you suppose Russia's going to do with 10 times the number of 155 mm artillery ammunition? Transport it to the next country it wants to invade on bicycles? Use it to shoot down drones? Russia is nearly bankrupt, its army is pathetic, the country is flirting with bankruptcy.
My point remains, Russia is incapable of invading anybody in the near term, therefore, there is no near-term shortage, although there certainly exists a medium and long-term problem.
However, medium and long-term the UK will not be worried so much about 155 mm artillery capabilities but drone capabilities and air defenses.
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