Posted on 02/23/2023 5:21:58 PM PST by McGruff
With the war in Ukraine entering its second year — and the U.S. continuing to provide the embattled country with military aid in the form of rockets, guns and ammunition — the Pentagon is stepping up production of critically-needed supplies.
Cancian said Ukraine's use of artillery shells far outstrips the Pentagon's capacity to make them.
Precision-fired munitions for the long-range HIMARS system are another need, so Lockheed Martin is gearing up to turn out one new rocket every 10 minutes at its plant in Arkansas.
And with the U.S. struggling to keep Ukraine supplied in its fight against a decrepit Russian military, there is concern about what could happen if the U.S. were to become involved in a conflict with China. CSIS recently conducted a war game that showed that the U.S. would run out of a key weapon — Long Range Anti Ship Missiles (LRASM) — while trying to stop a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
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Do we even have any strategic oil reserves left?
“the Pentagon is stepping up production of critically-needed supplies.”
Surely, that includes refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Much of the “think” and control that is in the Javelin can now be done on a single board computer (SBC) such as the Raspberry Pi or Banana. That would be a significant rather than using the vendor’s board.
The Soviets and allies and now Russia and allies, always had the best artillery in the world and enough of it to severely hurt their enemies in the initial attack - The Germans at Kursk, etc., the No. Vietnamese during the 1972 & 1975 invasions of So. Vietnam, the No. Koreans and Red Chinese during the Korean War, and several other battles.
As I recall, the Czech and East German reds made great artillery which outgunned our 155s and few 175s in Nam by miles. We see this in Ukraine nearly every day.
I would compare 4166 to imr 4895 for velocity,burn rate, etc. I’m mostly loading it for 308 win. May not be good for 338 win mag
That would significantly reduce cost by thousands. But I would guess that the manufacturer of the proprietary control board wold pay big bucks in “campaign donations” to the politicians on the Defense committees to make sure that didn’t happen.
Not as long as we can stop the Commie RATS from confiscating our weapons.==
You hand weapon will not help you against a modern army. They will spot you from drone and kill you by mortar shell easy justifying that you were armed.
To resist an army you need machineguns, armored cars, drones, RPGs, mines, air-defense, hand-grenades, body-armor and at last a your hand gun. I’m not mentioning aviation, artilleries and missiles. Or nukes))))...
You are kidding right? The US military is small compared to the 350 million citizens. Let’s say 30% rebel. That is 100,000,000 rebels. Let’s say half are armed. That is 50,000,000 rebels against a US army of 800,000 on a good day.
That is 50,000,000 rebels against a US army of 800,000 on a good day.==
How much will cost to kill a rebel? $1 a bullet. But how much will cost to grew a rebel from birth to adulthood? For sure it will cost MORE then $1. Maybe even $100,000 a rebel.
So you may see that even economically rebels will lose.
338 Lapua mag is what I shoot with my heavy hitters.
Tell that to the Viet Cong.
“...you need machineguns, armored cars, drones,
RPGs, mines, air-defense, hand-grenades...”
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Not familiar with the concept of ‘trading up’?
Tell that to the Viet Cong.==
They had in jungles high-caliber machineguns, RPGs, mines, mortars, sniping rifles and at last hand-guns. And a lot of free ammos too.
The ordinary american gun owner does NEVER possess all those.
Attention LiberalTarians supporting Russia.
Your are the real Neo-Cons, supporting Russian imperial empire.
It’s not working Dufusses.
Russia is wrong and failing. People see it for what it is.
...you got it! More “Big Guy” kick-backs.
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