The United States faces a shortage of energetics and propellants for munitions

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/the-united-states-faces-a-shortage-of-energetics-and-propellants-for-munitions/

by Mil_in_ua

16 comments

  1. what you mean by energetics? speak English man!

  2. …also maybe quote the important parts like:

    “The army is “confident” it can reach 100,000 shells per month by the end of the year, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth told reporters”

  3. If there’s one thing I’m confident about in America . It’s if it’s even projected to be short of something pertaining to the arms industry….it will be bought, found, or forced in short order.

  5. failure of the leftist globalists to understand the basics of protecting our vital infrastructure…….doesnt just mean armaments……stock up on N95’s for the next pandemic……heard they are working to protect us all from Ebola next…..

  7. There is another consideration; this could be propaganda for russia to swallow.

  8. China must be pissed that America is getting all these bottlenecks sorted out now, and not caught off guard by an invasion of Taiwan.

  9. Maybe the US Government should encourage entrepreneurs to build the needed factories, buy the equipment necessary for production: making steel shells, making the explosives, quality control, fuse production, propellant production, etc….

    Everything needed is paid for by government grants, subsidies, oversight. Enough if these factories are built to produce the numbers needed. Long-term storage facilities are also necessary (climate -controlled for longevity).

  12. There will be ZERO shortfall of ANY projection if the money and purposes are BOTH right.

  13. As an American I’m appalled at the state of our military industrial capacity. When I was in the Marines I toured a small arms factory that’s now a lithium ion battery plant (after over a decade of being nothing.)

  14. If there’s any issue, it’s in Europe. Europe’s chemical industry has been fucked since the invasion because the base reagent as well as the energy needed for all of these chemicals is natural gas, and they got that from RU. They aren’t shut down now, but they have had to shift to a much more expensive process.

    The US has a relative abundance of natural gas, but the constriction in Europe is tightening up the overall supply chain.

    This in addition to constraints in shell manufacturing, as well as purchasing power parody means the West is likely paying 5x to 6x price per 155mm shell in comparison to RU 152mm equivalent.

    Good thing we’re so rich, but that these constraints have been an equalizing force in this conflict.

  16. Guess they need to let people start mining again for the raw materials

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