The US military needs a lot more artillery shells, rockets, and missiles for the next war
It’s time for the military to stock up on things that go boom.
BY JEFF SCHOGOL | PUBLISHED SEP 5, 2022 9:00 AM
The U.S. military needs to start buying munitions by the proverbial crapload if they want to be prepared for a war with Russia or China.
Back in February 2018, the Army asked Congress for money to buy about 150,000 shells for 155mm howitzers. That represented an 825% increase in the number of shells that the Army wanted to buy.
Events since then have shown that 150,000 shells will not get you far on a modern battlefield. Since February, the United States has provided Ukraine with up to 806,000 shells for 155mm howitzers and another 108,000 shells for 105mm guns, according to the Defense Department. That’s close to 1 million shells in roughly six months, and that figure does not include the precision-guided rockets for the 16 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, that the U.S. military has also given to Ukraine.
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