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1.3 million shells X $4000 per shell = $5.2 billion X 10% = $520 million for "The Big Guy" ™
“Russia is managing to produce artillery shells at triple the speed of Ukraine’s allies for a quarter of the price”
More NEOCON PROPAGANDA, don’t believe it. It’s more like 5 to 10 times as fast, for no more than 10% of the price.
But nice try!
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1.3 million shells X $4000 per shell = $5.2 billion X 10% = $520 million for "The Big Guy" ™
So this is why Russia is winning? Oh... That’s right, they aren’t winning.
Oh well... At least they can make cheap shells... I wonder... How many of them are duds?
I bet he loses big playing fantasy football, too.
It’s a warning that if we get into a fight with Russia we won’t be ready. Fortunately our shells are a better quality.
I suppose “Z” will send this to Biden....see...we need more...and more....and more...
Russia didn’t allow its defense industries to be taken over by Wall-Street private equity, using borrowed-printed-fiat money, and to be gathered into giant, oligopolistic enterprises - which shipped jobs overseas on one hand, and lobbied and corrupted government unceasingly for higher prices on the other.
Or rather - it DID allow it, but Putin went to war with Russia’s oligarchs 20 years ago.
The USA has yet to start that process here.
“The effectiveness of the escalation in war production is illustrated by the quantities of material manufactured: Britain alone produced nearly four million rifles, a quarter of a million machine guns, 52,000 aeroplanes, 25,000 artillery pieces and over 170 million rounds of artillery shells by the end of the war.”
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-factories-that-fed-the-front-in-the-first-world-war
The Wehrmacht found out the hard way as are the Ukrainians that more beats better. Ukraine is running out of both men and material. Russia can sustain this for as long as they want. Uncle Sugar is not going to keep it going especially when President Trump brings adults back to Washington.
The corruption is so universal that the only solution is going to be the collapse of the currency in the cesspool of governmnet generated unpayable debt.
Russia can pump out more shells than NATO
Also, Russia locked up North Korea Inventory and Manufacturing
NATO is stupid
Russia is silent on buying shells from North Korea, why!
Having Ukraine continue to fight a way it can't win is immoral, evil and insane.
Russian shell production?
I am calling horse hockey on this. You don’t go to North Korea and China and beg for artillery shells if your production is that great. Production, does not mean ‘import or re-import’ of shells.
PS, the US has spend a great amount of money to bring new shell
Production on line, with three new plants. Historically, artillery is something the US always seems to figure out.
The Russians will be down to rocket artillery alone by the end of the year, and those have such shorter ranges than tube artillery that they are much more vulnerable to drone attack.
At that point the Russian army will utterly lack fire support.
Explains why Joe had to ask South Korea and Japan to send artillery shells to Zelensky.
Does Russian artillery production keep up? Artillery tubes wear out and have to be replaced. As the wear increases, accuracy and safety for the crew decrease.