U.S. Army Says It Is Rethinking How Much Artillery It Will Need for a potential large-scale future fight

 

 Business Insider: Watching Ukraine burn through ammo fighting Russia has the US Army rethinking how much it really needs for when war breaks out 

 * Both sides of the war in Ukraine have burned through insane amounts of ammo, straining stockpiles globally. 

 * The war has prompted the US Army to rethink how much it should be producing and stockpiling, both for itself and its allies. 

 * A US official told Business Insider the Army is both ramping up production and modernizing its process. 

With both sides of the war in Ukraine burning through ammo at astonishing rates, the US Army says it's rethinking what it needs for a potential large-scale future fight. 

But with production, particularly of 155mm artillery shells, ramping up, the Army is also looking at how to modernize its ongoing manufacturing and stockpiles — both to continue supporting allies like Ukraine and Israel, as well as have enough ammo should the US find itself in a high-intensity conflict of its own, especially against a major military power.  

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WNU Editor: The way I see it. If Ukraine runs out of artillery shells, they will lose this war. That is the lesson that the US Army should walk away with.

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