Re:AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats re...
by Animats on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:49AM
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The ammo makers have already increased production. There are many sources for 155mm shells.
Nammo [1] BAE Systems.[2] Dezamet [3] General Dynamics [4]. Those are somewhat generic. The real shortages are in the fancier guided stuff. Most of which is decades-old technology and could be built today from common smartphone parts.
[1] https://www.nammo.com/product/our-products/ammunition/large-...
[2] https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/shell-155mm-how-he-l15
The current signals (UKR having low artillery stocks and US and other NATO countries inability to provide more, with Russians stocks also apparently low) have reminded me of 1915 in the First Big Mistake, when everyone had used up their prewar stocks of artillery shells, and waited to bring the factories online to make vastly more of them- the build-up to the mega-deaths at Verdun and the Somme. Hopefully we won't see that level of death in this war.