Monthly German artillery shell deliveries to Ukraine.In December, Germany delivered another 52,000 155mm shells to Ukraine, as production keeps increasing.

by Straight_Ad2258

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  2. Rheinmetall CEO confirmed they have reached their production target of 700,000 155mm shells in 2024

    [https://x.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1873730763738288501](https://x.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1873730763738288501)

    in 2025, Rheinmetall should be able to produce roughly 2k shells a day, as much as Ukraine fired early this year in total

    further production expansion from BAE, Nammo and others is also important, if Ukraine would be able to fire 3,000 shells a day or 5,000 shells a day

    I’m excluding US production rate for now because its uncertain how deliveries will continue, but seeing Trump’s decisions in previous weeks , looks like the military industrial lobby will likely have him sell arty shells to Europe

    US will not send any aid paid from US budget , but that doesn’t mean defense industry cant export more to Ukraine by itself, in fact, Republicans would even encourage it ,LOL

    with US production added, total Western 155mm shell production rate should easily reach 6-8k shells per day in June 2025, and i haven’t even counted Korea or Turkey yet

  3. Nice! Germany is doing a lot for Ukraine, glad to see it!

  4. Here’s hoping Ukraine is delivering them just as quickly to Russia

  5. In WWII production, the general rule for American factories was “6 months to the first prototype unit out of the factory, 6 months of learning to produce it efficiently, and then only limited by the amount of raw goods provided to the factory.”

    Ukraine may have overcome the shortage of shells from previous years.

  6. Up to half the qty delivered might have been from the joint ammunition iniative organized by Czech goverment. The rest is domestic production I guess. Since factory capacity and supply chain have been established now there might be more coming in Q1.

  7. a lot of this is the Czech shell imitative, so bought from other sources, this initiative is almost complete, deliveries will go down soon as all has to come from production again. and new orders still need to be placed for Ukraine.

  8. Rheinmetal’s stock price has gone up multiple times more than the actual products it’s produced from its own catalyst, the Ukraine conflict. This is like yelling fire in a crowded theatre, and while people are trampling each other escaping, you take ownership of the theatre.

  13. Makes my German heart happy. I hope we can send even more in the future. 52.000 doesn’t sound like much in the grand scheme of things.

  15. Better late than never, but definitely a step in the right direction. Solid work, Germany.

    EDIT: not criticising Germany in particular, more Europe as a whole. Hopefully this is an initial step in a broader, continent-wide rearmament.

  16. Are there similar stats for other countries artillery production for/supply to Ukraine?

  17. Wow. Back in May it was feeling like all talk and no action, and here we are with all action and not much talk.

    That absolutely looks like they’re doing the thing.

  21. notice the exponential growth from october to december. Production finally go brrr

  22. Everyone going to be surprised when this war is over and the the German Military Industrial Complex continues to go BRRRRRRR.

    In the meantime, heck yes.

  23. In addition Rheinmetall is currently building a new factory at their site in Unterlüß Lower Saxony. Scheduled completion is spring 2025 providing an additional 50 to 75 K artillery shells in 2025, increasing to 100 to 125 k in 2026 and reaching its max output of 200 k shells in 2027.

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