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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months agoYes the guns are but that isn’t where we have the shortage. The shortage is the ammunition. A gun isn’t useful without ammo.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/…/71134562007/
There is another in Pennsylvania. Both are owned by the army and contractors make the ammo.
Same with lake city but they make rifle rounds.
If you can find where private companies are making 155mm in their own facilities I’d like to see it. I’ve only found it made in army arsenals.
sxan@midwest.social 5 months ago
OK, let’s ignore small arms and focus on things a civilian simply can’t buy, like howitzers and tanks.
The actual munitions - not the weapons, but the ammunition - are manufactured by a variety of companies, including Aerojet Rocketdyne and Nammo. Nammo makes a bunch of ammunition, from small arms, to cannon ammo for the M1 to 155mm Archer L52 howitzers. AR also produces ammunition for the A10’s GAU, and a bunch of other munitions and munition parts for more complex munitions (missiles & bombs). Both of these companies make TOW missiles - again, the munitions, not the weapon systems.
Lockheed Martin makes the actual Patriot missiles - that article incidentally talking about the very ramping-up we’re discussing.
The US outsources all weapons and ammo manufacture to the private sector. This is exactly why it’s called the Military Industrial Complex, and why Eisenhower warned against it.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Those are the contractors. The government owns the facilities at least for 155mm. Can you show which factory makes the 155mm round? You seem to be confusing the contractor with the factory. Two two are not the same.
Missiles may be done differently; I have not found an article talking in detail about who owns what with the production of The Patriot.
As I cited previously, we are ramping up, but not quickly enough to meet their needs. Ukraine needs about 210,000 155mm rounds a month. We are generating about 28K a month.