“By FY26, the plan is to build 100,000 a month.”
Exactly. By 2026, longer than the Manhattan Project, they will be able to produce 3000 shells per day. Which is a fraction of what Russia is currently producing right now.
This is what happens when you outsource your economy and rely on “services” and financial manipulation and bullsh!t.
Western production of 155mm shells will overtake Russian production in a year. Quality of shells produced is not the same. Russia is depending almost exclusively on unguided contact fused shells vs western more effective proximity fuses.
Army picks Northrop Grumman for proximity fuze with advanced electronic technologies for artillery shells
U.S. Army artillery experts needed advanced proximity fuzes with state-of-the-art electronic technologies for 105- and 155-millimeter artillery shells. They found their solution from Northrop Grumman Corp.
Officials of the Army Contracting Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., announced $533.9 million contract Wednesday to the Northrop Grumman Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Rocket Center, W.Va., for M782 multi-option fuzes for artillery.
The M782 Multi-Option Artillery Fuze (MOFA) is for high-explosive fragmentation- and burster-type 105- and 155-millimeter artillery projectiles.
The proximity fuze has four functional modes: variable time, time, point detonating, and delay. The fuze contains an electronic timing system that may be set to function from 0.5 to 199.9 seconds in increments of tenths of a second.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/sensors/article/14280335/proximity-fuze-artillery-shells-electronic-technologies