Geev me munney, says Elenskyy!
Posted on 02/18/2024 5:20:41 AM PST by hardspunned
The Czech Republic has found about 800,000 artillery shells of NATO and Soviet-era caliber that can be shipped to Ukraine in a few weeks.
However, for this, funding must be secured quickly.
Czech President Petr Pavel stated this during a debate at the Munich Security Conference.
According to the Czech President, the country’s representatives managed to find about 500,000 155-mm artillery shells and 300,000 122-mm shells abroad.
He added that they could be transported to Ukraine in a matter of weeks if funding is secured quickly.
(Excerpt) Read more at mil.in.ua ...
I support the ongoing destruction of Russia’s military!
“Making the World a better place”
You-Rope needs to be funding the Ukes for a while.
I thought the Russkies were the Morlocks and the Ukes were the Eloi. Did I get my fantasy fiction wrong?
Yeppers.
Found in Hillary’s extra swimming pool she had covered over?
Has nothing to do with "grift". The Czechs know about facing Russian armies barehanded. They were crushed by their Russian "liberators" in 1948. The scenario is almost identical. Their Yanukovich was named Klement Gottwald. What happened then was the trigger that caused the formation NATO. Czechs remember.
Crushed again in 1968!
TANSTAAFL.
Best thing that could happen is to re-elect Trump. He would drop the world price for oil by 70% and starve the Muskovite military of funding.
“Ukrainian guns are firing up to 6,000 rounds daily, Ukrainian MP Oleksandra Ustinova told CNN, but the military wants to shoot more than 10,000.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/17/europe/ukraine-shell-supplies-intl/index.html
So they found nearly three month’s supply.
What happens in June?
Hungary took it in the neck in 1956. My family’s church sponsored four refugees. Good people. One guy was a skilled locksmith, so he found work as a machinist. His wife worked for our family part time as a housecleaner, which we didn’t need, but it gave them another income.
This comment reminds me of a story I read about 30 years ago. When they were recommissioning the battleship the USS New Jersey in the early 1980s. They had plenty of ammo from WWII (Oh yes, we still have plenty of 16" ammo, because it is much cheaper to store them than to demilitarize them. And if the ammo is stored in a stable condition they have an unbelievable shelf-life.) but they were worried about barrels for the 16" guns. The barrels have a pretty short shelf life when you actually use them. And there was no manufacturing equipment to make new 16" cannon barrels. The Navy decided to continue working on recommissioning on the ship and build new machinery to make new barrels (which would take a long long time), assuming that they had some time before they wore out the current barrels. Without any prodding, countries all over the world were asking if the US wanted some prepositioned barrels that had been abandoned after WWII. Within a few months, the US Navy realized that they had more barrels than they could ever use.
Yes they did and it was much much more bloody then snuffing out of 1968 Czech revolt.
LOL, yeah right
Eu just gave ukes 50 bil.
they don’t need more money.
if old maybe they can blow up in face
“for this, funding must be secured quickly.”
Show me the money!
I told him to welcome them and give them flak vests, helmets and ear protection and take them to the gun line and assign each of them to firing platoons to serve the guns.
After about one half hour of firing, they were done - and there wasn't a single instance of any of them mentioning women serving on a 155mm gun section.
In fact, they finished their visit faster than expected and went back to Washington.
Thank you for that - that was an interesting story!
Not really. There are bunkers all over the world where cannon and rocket munitions are stored securely and then forgotten. You give the West way too much credit for competent accounting. Apparently, you've never heard of "artillery math".
In 1976, I was assigned to break out stored and preservation packed weapons for an artillery battery that had been cadred (decommissioned). We went to a tunnel in the side of a mountain above Pearl Harbor in the Lualualei Ammunition Depot and once we were admitted inside, began opening and counting. At the end of that darkened tunnel, we noticed another door that led deeper into the mountain. I assigned a Lance Corporal to fish through a ring of keys and after a short while, he had the door open.
There was another long length in that tunnel and it was filled with pre-WWII munitions, equipment and weapons - all neatly stored and in excellent condition! Nobody had ever entered that part of the tunnel in over 35 years!
We were stunned to find all of that and so were the Navy Security people with us.
“You give the West way too much credit for competent accounting. Apparently, you’ve never heard of “artillery math”.”
Having worked Military Logistics in a past life, I can tell you that the big concern is TERRORISM, and we, obviously, do not want any large weapons getting into enemy hands, and that concern predated the break-up of the Soviet Union by many years. There is NO WAY that 155s can make it into the Czech Republic WITHOUT our brass knowing it.
Geev me munney, says Elenskyy!
The Ukes WERE firing 6000 rounds a day. They weren’t firing any counter battery fire at all the last week in Avdiivka. During this time the Uke infantry was constantly being mauled by Russian artillery. That’s one of the reasons for the rout.
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