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To: Sacajaweau

Everyone is learning that peacetime stocks of PGMs were underestimated vs actual usage on the battlefield. Stocking levels need to be increased (units per launcher).

This affects every army, Ukraine first, but Ukrainian demands on NATO stocks are a heads up to everyone.


4 posted on 04/14/2022 2:44:53 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya
Everyone is learning that peacetime stocks of PGMs were underestimated vs actual usage on the battlefield.

Perhaps a retuning of levels.

The Yom Kippur war in 1973 served as an eye opener as to what modern depletion rates were likely to be.

I also seem to recall that U.S. NATO forces had a 30 day stock... enough to hold off the initial blow from Warsaw Pact nations until the first serious quantities of replacements from the US mainland could be delivered.

8 posted on 04/14/2022 3:19:09 AM PDT by fso301
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