• TassieTosser@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    Running out of old stockpiles to send. Western militaries have plenty to spare, but it’d be the ammo they actually use.

    • Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      You have a cite for that. That goes against every news article and statement from the White House and pentagon.

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          8 months ago

          Your cite says nothing about his claim. His claim is we have plenty of ammunition to send. We don’t.

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            8 months ago

            It’s a matter of what ammunition, not ammunition in general. Ukraine uses a quarter of a million artillery shells a month. The US doesn’t have facilities to build them that fast because we would never need to use that many. We would absolutely own the sky over both the battlefield and Russia itself, reducing the utility of artillery and increasing it’s effectiveness. The benefits of combined arms and force multiplication can’t be overstated.

            We could very quickly build out capacity to produce the shells Ukraine needs, but it’s a problem of economics. Those facilities are expensive, and wouldn’t be required long enough to provide suppliers a return on investment. We would have to pay a massive premium on those shells and, this far, there hasn’t been the will to do that.