Pentagon Goes Full Throttle: America’s Ammo Factories Enter Wartime Mode, Aiming for 100,000 Shells Monthly

https://united24media.com/latest-news/pentagon-goes-full-throttle-americas-ammo-factories-enter-wartime-mode-aiming-for-100000-shells-monthly-9269

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  1. I hope that’s the reason…and Godspeed to all aid to Ukraine.

  2. Pity they’ll mostly be employed to invade Greenland at this rate, or lobbed at Palestinians.

  3. Unfortunately this is not for the benefit of Ukraine. I hate that is the truth, only upside for Ukraine is hopefully all shaheed production facilities will be up in smoke.

  4. So an arms race that everyone has been trying to prevent for the last 50 years.

  7. That isn’t a real wartime rate. If Ukraine could they would use probably 3x that much.

  10. Uhh that’s likely to subdue the US citizens when Trump decides to push more autocratic policies. Not for Ukraine.

  11. >The United States plans to increase production of 155mm artillery shells to 100,000 units per month by October 2025, and expects to manufacture over 1 million 155mm shells in total in 2026.

    This figure lags behind earlier plans announced in February 2024, which aimed to reach 75,000 shells per month by April 2025 and 100,000 by October.

    Presumably that’s the US being short of explosives which is the bottleneck on increasing production. On the bright side the EU’s modest effort is on track for producing 2.4x what the US is doing:-

    [https://united24media.com/latest-news/europes-artillery-production-skyrockets-poised-to-overtake-russia-and-rival-china-by-2026-7873](https://united24media.com/latest-news/europes-artillery-production-skyrockets-poised-to-overtake-russia-and-rival-china-by-2026-7873)

    >Rheinmetall’s Nitrochemie unit has added a third nitration line in Aschau. BAE is rolling out mobile RDX micro-factories across the UK and at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Tennessee. French supplier Eurenco is doubling its output of high-energy materials at its PB Clermont site.

    >If these trends hold, Europe could hit an artillery ceiling of 2.4 million shells per year by 2026 — an eightfold increase in just four years. The full impact, analysts say, will be felt in 2026 when current investments mature.

  12. 100k shells a month is full throttle for the US? lol no

  13. So all it took was Israel asking, and now the sky’s the limit with military aid and even direct involvement in a war. I wasn’t one of those who thought Israel had so much power over US policy, but it’s so clear now, in contrast to Ukraine.

  14. Give those munitions to Ukraine so they can protect themselves against the evil aggressors.

  16. Trump will sell them to Russia…”doing a business deal”…

  17. So we *could have done this* but we *chose* not to.

  18. As an American,  oh shhhit. Glad I am beyond drafting years

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