Posted on 09/09/2022 8:44:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON—The war in Ukraine has depleted American stocks of some types of ammunition and the Pentagon has been slow to replenish its arsenal, sparking concerns among U.S. officials that American military readiness could be jeopardized by the shortage.
The U.S. has during the past six months supplied Ukraine with 16 U.S. rocket launchers, known as Himars, thousands of guns, drones, missiles and other equipment. Much of that, including ammunition, has come directly from U.S. inventory, depleting stockpiles intended for unexpected threats, defense officials say.
One of the most lethal weapons the Pentagon has sent are howitzers that fire high-explosive 155mm ammunition weighing about 100 pounds each and able to accurately hit targets dozens of miles away. As of Aug. 24, the U.S. military said it had provided Ukraine with up to 806,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition. The U.S. military has declined to say how many rounds it had at the start of the year.
In recent weeks, the level of 155mm combat rounds in U.S. military storage have become “uncomfortably low,” one defense official said. The levels aren’t yet critical because the U.S. isn’t engaged in any major military conflict, the official added. “It is not at the level we would like to go into combat,” the defense official said.
The U.S. military used a howitzer as recently as last week to strike at Iranian-backed groups in Syria, and the depletion of 155mm ammunition is increasingly concerning for a military that seeks to plan for any scenario.
The Army said the military is now conducting “an ammunitions industrial base deep dive” to determine how to support Ukraine while protecting “our own supply needs.” The Army said it also asked Capitol Hill for $500 million a year in upgrade efforts for the Army’s ammunition plants.
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I think that is basically the plan.
Deplete US military supplies and then China invades Taiwan.
The Pfentagon
Of the all the things I’d worry about, the last thing I worry about is Congress letting the MIC go hungry.
Don’t these munitions create NOX, CO2 or some other Gorebal warning gases?
America is imperiling its own defense capabilities by sending weapons to Ukraine.
The US military is going to need to hold back some weaponry to use against US non-military citizens.
All over a war in Ukraine that has absolutely nothing to do with our national security. We’re now vulnerable to a real threat.
Send the new IRS Army - win/win.
No problem!
Several hundred million rounds are available, spread out over at least 15 federal agencies...
Yeah... super obvious at this point.
But US Americans don’t seem to be getting it.
Well, at least it doesn’t go to 87000 IRS agents..
Consider this prepping for the Sino-surrender.
Note no /s.
Too bad they didn’t take all those weapons from Afghanistan
The Democrat Party motto: “Anything to hurt America.”
The first thing they bring up is 16 HIMARS? We have 500. The pentagon said we could send 100 without impacting our readiness. What’s more articles have said we have ramped HIMAR production, because we are sending Ukraine newly produced HIMARS instead of sending them out of our inventory.
One of Moscow Joe’s method of slow walking aid.
I quit reading after that was the first item.
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