The Russian economy under Vladimir the Great is producing for the Special Military Operation two MILLION artillery shells a year, and heading upward toward nine million per annum. (https://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/the-numbers-speak-russias-staggering-shell-production-exceeds-western-estimates/)
As the Duran note, this is the first time in the history of the United States, which has had a huge industrial base for centuries, that the military has been unable in wartime to produce enough artillery shells to support an army.
And as they also say, the Ukraine War has become largely, like the ghastly WWI, an artillery duel with 60% of all casualties caused by incoming artillery, not by men charging across the battlefield.
My father fought as a Marine officer in the Korean War and it was artillery (actually a Chinese mortar round) that took him out.
He fell into a coma, was out for three days, and woke up in a hospital bed in Tokyo, US-occupied Japan, whence he was shipped stateside.
As they also say, the 155mm artillery shells of today are precision-guided, and expensive. The US only produces about 25,000 of these a month and the Europeans 4,000.
Yet Jewkraine uses 200,000 a month.
We have spent hundreds of billions on Israel and on ngrs, closed our factories down; we have become a halfway Third-World country.
I read:
The Army makes artillery shells at Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania as well as a General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility nearby in Wilkes Barre, Penn. It fills them at a government facility in Iowa.
The Army is under contract to build another facility with a company in Canada, and is standing up yet another with the General Dynamics unit in Garland, Texas, to make additional shell bodies. Iowa is expanding its capability, and there is some production expansion into Kansas, Bush noted.
“It’s not all in one place,” he said. “It’s literally building new factories and putting advanced machine tools in them. That’s really the only way to do it.” (source: https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/2023/03/28/us-army-eyes-six-fold-production-boost-of-155mm-shells-used-in-ukraine/)
Here is the video, and it also discusses the insane idea of Poland and Lithuania sending, quite outside of NATO, their own combat soldiers into Ukraine to kill the Russians.
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