www.voanews.com/amp/…/7510881.html
Right now we are making 28k a month. Ukraine shoots 7k a day. That’s 210,000 a month.
That’s the issue. It’s one I didn’t know we had. I always assumed we could ramp up quickly since that’s a standard round.
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sxan@midwest.social 5 months agoI’m not downplaying what we’re giving Ukraine; I was taking objection to the idea that the US barely has enough munitions to defend itself from a nebulous enemy and we need to be careful about how much we give out.
Yup, my service was decades ago.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
sxan@midwest.social 5 months ago
It’s the “without more funds” part that’s misdirection. I still do assume that we could ramp up, quite quickly. These are private companies producing the munitions; if the gvmnt suddenly doubled the contract funding, I would be greatly surprised if we discovered production couldn’t keep up.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Most the plants are not privately owned. They are government owned and contracts work in them.
Most of these plants were shutdown as a cost savings measure. That’s been the issue
sxan@midwest.social 5 months ago
thegunzone.com/who-manufactures-ammunition-for-th…
www.gd-ots.com/munitions/artillery/
lockheedmartin.com/…/naval-launchers-and-munition… (just to include one of the other branches)
I could find more, if you like. All claim to be the manufacturers of ordinance. It’s not just the ammunition, the guns themselves are manufactured by private corporations. The M777 Howitzer is produced by BAE Systems. It’s always a private contractor who designs and delivers weapons and ordinance.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That goes against all the news article. We can’t keep up with the demand from Ukraine unless we deplete our stockpiles. If China acted up, Iran or if we needed to fight Russia we wouldn’t have the supply to do it.