US Army awards $1.5B to boost global production of artillery rounds - October 26, 2023
EXCERPT:
U.S. Army said it awarded contracts to nine companies in the U.S., Canada, India, and Poland to boost global production of 155mm artillery rounds . . . the service finalized a flurry of contracts that “resourced each major component, material or required production process to maintain momentum for the goal of 80,000 projectiles per month by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.”
Ukraine to make shells with US firms as it seeks to develop defence sector - December 7, 2023
EXCERPT:
Dec 7 (Reuters) - Kyiv has agreed with two American firms to jointly manufacture vital 155mm artillery shells in Ukraine . . .
"We have agreements with two leading American companies to jointly produce, in Ukraine, 155-calibre ammunition," Oleksandr Kamyshin, minister for strategic industries, said in televised comments.
But he noted that Ukraine had never produced such shells and it would be "a minimum of two years, a maximum of three" before production could begin.
Mesquite 635 Industrial Park [just 12 minutes from downtown Dallas at the crossroads of Interstate 635 and U.S. 80]:
DMN: General Dynamics Selects Mesquite Industrial Park for New Artillery Casings Plant - April 25, 2023
EXCERPT:
“The manufacturing facility will effectively produce 20,000 units per month” of artillery casings only.
Mesquite [City Council] approves new General Dynamics plant to make artillery casings - May 10, 2023
Note: The Mesquite artillery shell casing manufacturing plant is expected to open in June, 2024; but some of the funding might be hung up in the Congress. And another maybe: that same funding pool includes funds for the Lima, Ohio heavy armor tank plant.
YouTube - 2 videos re 155mm status
Inside the US Factory Making Ukraine’s Most Important Ammo - August 6, 2023
Why the 155mm Shell Is One of the World’s Most Wanted Objects Now - January 24, 2024
Thank you.
Do you think these projected future production numbers meet what the Ukes need in terms of fieldpiece tube replacements and artillery shells to match or out do the Russians at the front?