Ukrainian troops now typically fire between 2,000 and 3,000 artillery shells per day at Russian forces, a US defense official told CNN.

6 comments

1. Is there any significance to this, or just random news?

2. I heard russia fires 60,000 per day..

   at 2:00 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjInnRL-HUg

3. I thought this was a very high number until I learned during WWII over a billion artillery shells were fired. We need industry to keep pumping artillery shells out to support Ukraine.

4. Over 1,000 kilometers of contact, that’s really not much.

5. It’s not the amount that matters primarly, but the results.

   Ukraine has destroyed a lot of vehicles and enemy personell recently using different kinds of artillerly. They have more precise shells, not to mention more precise rocket artillery.

   In short: Firing 10000 shells to destroy 100 vehicles is always worse than to fire 1000 shells and destroy 100 vehicls.

   I’m 100% sure that the “shells used per actual hit” metric is much, much lower (and thus better) on the Ukrainian side than on the Russian side. By a factor of 10 or 20 at least.

6. This is just wasteful.

   A couple of precision bombing fighter jets would save a lot of shells.