Posted on 02/17/2023 7:11:02 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Britain’s defence minister has warned that Ukraine must learn to fight while using weapons and ammunition more sparingly, or face the possibility of running out.
Ben Wallace, the UK’s Secretary of Defence, has warned that Ukraine must learn to fight like a “Western” nation, saying that the country risks running out of weapons and ammunition in its fight against Russia if it continues to fail to use its resources sparingly.
The Conservative Party official’s warning comes as Ukraine’s war efforts begin to run the country’s own supply of munitions dry, but also those of a number of European nations keen to see the country win its fight against Russia.
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Ukraine has been moved to the budget plan.
Only shoot when you see the whites of their eyes.
This attitude is a damning indictment of not Ukraine, but the UK's current manufacturing capacity.
Trigger control and proper tactical techniques. No WWI or Vietnam spray and prey with the ammo.
Never fear!
The military genius who abandoned thousands of personnel and $85,000,000,000 of materiel in Afghanistan in the middle of the night is in charge!
We are in good hands.
Even more so of Ukraine for not prepping for a situation like this and for fighting a deadly proxy war for other countries using their own people as cannon fodder for globalist interests.
The tiniest voice squeeks like a mouse. The lions who roared now reduced to being played by the US shamed by NODRSTREAM-in-II almost silence.
They reported about this on NBC nightly news. The reported actually said that the Ukrainians now have to wait to see their targets before firing their weapons.
It seems England like the rest of NATO were not prepared for a long fight, and in some countries no extra capacity to supply a fight. I will assume they are sitting on war stocks they would need for themselves.
I don’t understand. Why don’t Western Governments simply go to Walmart or one of their many other Department Stores, and buy several million rounds of 155mm’s for their artillery?
I mean that’s what most people that I know do when they need ammunition, just go to the store - so why won’t the West do that? Do they HATE UKRAINE or something?
And what are they using their guns and ammo for again? Oh, that’s right, their country has been invaded by a hostile nation, and the citizens in the Ukraine have no restrictions like we in the US have, ie “only 7 rounds, no “assault weapons”, can’t have certain. Features on guns that “make them look scary”
No! They are allowed to,have and use effective weapons agaisnt invading armies, while we onmthe other hand will be severely outgunned if we are invaded because of asinine liberal gun laws! The whole purpose of the 2nd amendment was so that citizens could defend th3mselves as best as possible agaisnt all enemies, foreign and domestic, and was the reason why other nations avoided invading our nation!,we would be brittish subjects if the left had had their way back in the day and prevented citizens from having and using weapons to defend themselves. Today, we will be subject to some other nation if they invade because we the citizens are,so severely crippled as far as defending ourselves from foreign invaders the best we can goes
Running out of ammo we sent? 🤔
Welp, there goes another $10 billion.
Or any local gun show. Sheesh!
It’s not just the UK. The ammunition shortage has been widely reported:
“NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that the “current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production,” which is putting “our defense industries under strain.”
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/us-weapons-factories-ukraine-ammunition/index.html
More:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/14/u-s-training-ukrainian-troops-use-less-ammo-00082765
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-is-the-army-running-out-of-ammunition/a-64710592
You can do an internet search and find many more.
“Or any local gun show. Sheesh!”
For sure! If S&W can make 22’s, they can CERTAINLY make 155’s. All they need to do is bore-out the castings a bit - after all, a bullet is a bullet.
The REAL QUESTION here is why won’t S&W make these minor changes to their production lines? Do they HATE UKRAINE or something? Are they PUTIN PUPPETS, perhaps?
Remember that "assume" will often make an ass out of you and me.
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