>Deliveries of nearly 300,000 155 mm artillery shells are scheduled for 2024-2029.
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>This agreement is a part of the realization of the multi-year National Munitions Reserve program approved in Poland in March 2013.
“scheduled for 2024-2029″… not to piss on the plans, but as we’ve seen in UA, how long does 300k last in a hot war with Russia? A month?
I can’t help but think Europe is sleepwalking and is going to be caught napping sometime in the next 5-10 years by RU.
I get that the logistics of the war is incredibly difficult to supply and compensate for, given the sheer amount of ordnance that’s used on a daily basis.
That said, there need to be severe changes in terms of countries cooperating with each other when it comes to creating weapons and ammunition, because it’ll be a nightmare if Russia decides to go after Europe (for some stupid reason) and Ukraine alone is using more than we can provide.
There’s probably no easy solution that can be implemented immediately to ease the burden, but something needs to be done. Ukraine can’t hold out for years to come if logistics are becoming a problem today.
Russia was expanding 60k shells per day at the peak, making this 5 days’ worth. At it’s peak, Iran was expanding almost a million shells per day during the Iran-Iraq war. Unless these are all guided shells, it’s really not a lot.
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>Deliveries of nearly 300,000 155 mm artillery shells are scheduled for 2024-2029.
>
>This agreement is a part of the realization of the multi-year National Munitions Reserve program approved in Poland in March 2013.
“scheduled for 2024-2029″… not to piss on the plans, but as we’ve seen in UA, how long does 300k last in a hot war with Russia? A month?
I can’t help but think Europe is sleepwalking and is going to be caught napping sometime in the next 5-10 years by RU.
I get that the logistics of the war is incredibly difficult to supply and compensate for, given the sheer amount of ordnance that’s used on a daily basis.
That said, there need to be severe changes in terms of countries cooperating with each other when it comes to creating weapons and ammunition, because it’ll be a nightmare if Russia decides to go after Europe (for some stupid reason) and Ukraine alone is using more than we can provide.
There’s probably no easy solution that can be implemented immediately to ease the burden, but something needs to be done. Ukraine can’t hold out for years to come if logistics are becoming a problem today.
Russia was expanding 60k shells per day at the peak, making this 5 days’ worth. At it’s peak, Iran was expanding almost a million shells per day during the Iran-Iraq war. Unless these are all guided shells, it’s really not a lot.