Report: Ukraine Demand Hitting U.S. Heavy Ammo Stocks, Manufacturing Capabilities

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Report: Ukraine Demand Hitting U.S. Heavy Ammo Stocks, Manufacturing Capabilities

Simon Kent 23 Apr 2023

The U.S. can’t produce heavy munitions fast enough to meet Ukraine’s seemingly insatiable demand, putting unprecedented pressure on manufacturing capabilities while running down existing reserve stocks.

A report Sunday by AP details the the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant leads a multibillion-dollar Pentagon plan to modernize and accelerate its production of ammunition and equipment not only to support Ukraine, but to be ready for a potential conflict with China.

Trouble is demand is outstripping supply.

The invasion of Ukraine drained the U.S. stockpile of 155 mm shells and those of European allies leaving them were unprepared to support a major and ongoing conventional land war.

Analysts were warning of the impending supply side issues last year but only now are they becoming of more immediate – and public – concern.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/23/report-ukraine-demand-hitting-u-s-heavy-ammo-stocks-manufacturing-capabilities/

[Maj. Bill Martin]

The invasion of Ukraine drained the U.S. stockpile of 155 mm shells and those of European allies leaving them unprepared to support a major and ongoing conventional land war.

Exactly where at we at risk of a "major and ongoing land war", other than the one already taking place in Ukraine?

Russia trying to rebuild the Soviet Union is pretty much the only major land war that was ever on the table.   I suppose the other option is South Korea, but the ROK's we're always going to carry the vast majority of the workload on land in that war, and they have plenty of wat stocks.