[ansel12]

I see costs as low as $400.00 for the basic artillery shell for the 155, and there are other contracts, not just the one posted.
One of the great benefits of this Russian invasion is how it is affecting NATO/US and our allies when it comes to military readiness.

A lot of countries make 155 shells and there is a lot of new effort to cash in on this new market awareness.

The American military doesn’t exactly depend on the 155 shells and we aren’t going into a wasteful WWII-type effort to make them for foreign markets but we are doing a reasonable speeding up of production in a number of countries.

If you are worried that we can’t fight China with our 155 guns, don’t worry.

[Reverend Wright]

“I see costs as low as $400.00 for the basic artillery shell for the 155,”

From when, the 1950’s?

The Rheinmetall contract was 3300 euros per shell.

https://en.defence-ua.com/analysis/how_much_155mm_ammunition_costs_now_an_example_of_the_rheinmetall_contract_for_10000_shells-5178.html

(the Bulgarian contract is very opaque, “up to xxx,xxx shells”, deliberately in my view both from that gov’t to hide what they are doing, and likely to hide corruption)