Top generals warn that allies — Canada included — are running dangerously low on artillery shells

[shockedcanadian]

This isn't good. Reagan collapsed Russia via war, making them spend to keep up with the nuclear arms race he created. Russia now has revenge on their mind and they have China as a massive ally which they never did in the past. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ca...lery-shells-nato-ukraine-wayne-eyre-1.6988281

 

[braalian]

Canada has artillery shells?

 

[MisterBeale]

Canada and NATO could buy them from S. Korea. Both S. Korea and N. Korea, since they are in a permanent cease fire, have the largest arms production capacity on the planet.

While the North is directly aiding Russia, the South does not want its arms going directly to Ukraine.

This does not, however, mean its artillery can't go to those who are supplying Ukraine.

Seoul Stands Firm on Not Sending Lethal Weapons to Ukraine​

April 12, 2023 9:10 PM

Seoul Stands Firm on Not Sending Lethal Weapons to Ukraine

It's against its policy, Seoul says, as leaked Pentagon documents purportedly reveal South Korean officials debating sale of ammunition to US because of fear it would end up in Ukraine

www.voanews.com

South Korea is exporting billions in arms, just not to Ukraine​

Mar 6, 2023

South Korea is exporting billions in arms, just not to Ukraine

Traditional weapons suppliers like the US have faced production shortages in the war effort, and South Korea has stepped in to fill the gap in the global arms market.

www.japantimes.co.jp

". . . Hanwha Aerospace, South Korea’s largest defense contractor, is busier than ever, planning to scale up its production capacity three times by next year.

On a recent afternoon in Changwon, an industrial town on South Korea’s south coast, the country’s bestselling weapon, the K9 self-propelled howitzer, was taking shape amid white-hot sparks and robotic drilling inside a Hanwha plant the size of six football fields.

"We need to add two more assembly lines to meet a growing demand,” said Hanwha engineer Park Sangkyu, referring to orders of K9s from Poland and other nations, as he pointed to empty corners where the new facilities will go. The layout of the giant factory is being adjusted to accommodate them.

South Korea denounced the invasion of Ukraine, and Yoon has vowed to protect values like "freedom” and the "rules-based” international order. But South Korea’s eagerness to increase arms exports amid the war has also highlighted its difficulties with that balancing act.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has warned South Korea against aiding Ukraine militarily, saying that doing so would ruin relations between Russia and South Korea and could prompt Russia to deepen military ties with North Korea. . . "

South Korea to lend 500,000 rounds of artillery shells to US -report​

April 12, 20236:16 AM EDT

South Korea to lend 500,000 rounds of artillery shells to US -report

South Korea has reached an agreement to lend the United States 500,000 rounds of 155mm artillery shells that could give Washington greater flexibility to supply Ukraine with ammunition, a South Korean newspaper reported on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

At 17.3 Billion In Arms Sales, South Korea Emerges As One Of The Biggest Winners From Ukraine-Russia War​

March 7, 2023

At 17.3 Billion In Arms Sales, South Korea Emerges As One Of The Biggest Winners From Ukraine-Russia War

The Rusia-Ukraine war sparked a drive to increase the production of missiles, tanks, and artillery with South Korea taking a lead.

www.eurasiantimes.com

 

[Persuader]

Canada and NATO could by them from S. Korea. Both S. Korea and N. Korea, since they are in a permanent cease fire, have the largest arms production capacity on the planet.

While the North is directly aiding Russia, the South does not want its arms going directly to Ukraine.

This does not, however, mean its artillery can't go to those who are supplying Ukraine.

Seoul Stands Firm on Not Sending Lethal Weapons to Ukraine​

April 12, 2023 9:10 PM

Seoul Stands Firm on Not Sending Lethal Weapons to Ukraine

It's against its policy, Seoul says, as leaked Pentagon documents purportedly reveal South Korean officials debating sale of ammunition to US because of fear it would end up in Ukraine

www.voanews.com

South Korea is exporting billions in arms, just not to Ukraine​

Mar 6, 2023

South Korea is exporting billions in arms, just not to Ukraine

Traditional weapons suppliers like the US have faced production shortages in the war effort, and South Korea has stepped in to fill the gap in the global arms market.

www.japantimes.co.jp

". . . Hanwha Aerospace, South Korea’s largest defense contractor, is busier than ever, planning to scale up its production capacity three times by next year.

On a recent afternoon in Changwon, an industrial town on South Korea’s south coast, the country’s bestselling weapon, the K9 self-propelled howitzer, was taking shape amid white-hot sparks and robotic drilling inside a Hanwha plant the size of six football fields.

"We need to add two more assembly lines to meet a growing demand,” said Hanwha engineer Park Sangkyu, referring to orders of K9s from Poland and other nations, as he pointed to empty corners where the new facilities will go. The layout of the giant factory is being adjusted to accommodate them.

South Korea denounced the invasion of Ukraine, and Yoon has vowed to protect values like "freedom” and the "rules-based” international order. But South Korea’s eagerness to increase arms exports amid the war has also highlighted its difficulties with that balancing act.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has warned South Korea against aiding Ukraine militarily, saying that doing so would ruin relations between Russia and South Korea and could prompt Russia to deepen military ties with North Korea. . . "

South Korea to lend 500,000 rounds of artillery shells to US -report​

April 12, 20236:16 AM EDT

South Korea to lend 500,000 rounds of artillery shells to US -report

South Korea has reached an agreement to lend the United States 500,000 rounds of 155mm artillery shells that could give Washington greater flexibility to supply Ukraine with ammunition, a South Korean newspaper reported on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

At 17.3 Billion In Arms Sales, South Korea Emerges As One Of The Biggest Winners From Ukraine-Russia War​

March 7, 2023

At 17.3 Billion In Arms Sales, South Korea Emerges As One Of The Biggest Winners From Ukraine-Russia War

The Rusia-Ukraine war sparked a drive to increase the production of missiles, tanks, and artillery with South Korea taking a lead.

www.eurasiantimes.com

Once again we see the biden regime put us all in danger by not ramping up our production of the ammunition needed to help preserve our Natioal Security.....we all understand the nature of the biden regime...at least the more astute....unfortunately many do not care or are too busy with their persoal lives to understand just how dangerous the biden regime actually is...aka willing to put America in danger to promote liberal b.s.

 

[whitehall]

Canada hasn't had a war in eighty years. How are they running low on artillery shells? Are they shooting at us? Sending that old dangerous surplus junk to Ukraine beats dumping it in the ocean.

 

[Doc7505]

Once again we see the biden regime put us all in danger by not ramping up our production of the ammunition needed to help preserve our Natioal Security.....we all understand the nature of the biden regime...at least the more astute....unfortunately many do not care or are too busy with their persoal lives to understand just how dangerous the biden regime actually is...aka willing to put America in danger to promote liberal b.s.

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Supply side manufacturing is no longer America's strength. 90% of manufactured good have been offshored to China
Whether it's the manufacture of steel, aluminum, lead, copper, vehicles to pipes, etc. Manufacturing within America is now limited and cannot be counted upon to fulfill America's wartime needs. It's making itself apparent in the Ukraine and now Israel.
BYW the UK is also finding itself in the same boat...

British howitzers fall silent in Ukraine because of ‘catastrophic’ shortage of shells

Soldiers have been reduced to firing weapons less than once a day and some are resorting to using Second World War-era field guns instead

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Pentagon plans to produce 100,000 artillery shells a month in 2025

The military is ramping up manufacturing of 155mm artillery rounds, both to boost U.S. stockpiles and to provide Ukraine with ammunition.

taskandpurpose.com

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/politics/ukraine-critical-ammo-shortage-us-nato-grapple/index.html

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New EPA Regs Force Last Lead Smelter in USA to Close - The Truth About Guns

&#9664Previous Post Next Post▶ According to TFB, the final source for lead in the United States will be forced to shut down thanks to the new EPA standards that the Obama administration is mandating. Apparently the facility would cost $100 million to bring up to code, and the company that runs...

www.thetruthaboutguns.com

 

[Doc7505]

Why America Is Out of Ammunition​

Why can't the Pentagon get weapons firms to ramp up production? A new report shows the military doesn't track who owns its contractors, and has just two people looking at mergers in the defense base.​

Why America Is Out of Ammunition

Why can't the Pentagon get weapons firms to ramp up production? A new report shows the military doesn't track who owns its contractors, and has just two people looking at mergers in the defense base.

www.thebignewsletter.com

20 Oct 2023 ~~ By Matt Stoller

Today, as the U.S. is drawn into wars in Israel and Ukraine, as well as the defense of now-peaceful Taiwan, I’m writing about war. Not the policy choices, or whether U.S. military power is a net force for good or ill, but the actual practical machinery behind the American defense base that produces the weaponry necessary to sustain the military.
As stockpiles dwindle, there is now widespread agreement among policymakers that America must rebuild its capacity to arm itself and its allies. But according to a new scorching government report released this week, that’s mostly just talk. The Pentagon doesn’t bother tracking the guts of defense contracting, which is who owns the mighty firms that build weaponry.
~Snip~
Here’s an exceptionally boring chart that involves all the money in the world. Welcome to the Pentagon.

One of the more important side stories to the recent wars in Ukraine and Israel, and competition with China over Taiwan, is that the U.S. defense industrial base, composed of 200k plus corporations, is being forced to actually build weapons again. Defense is big business, and since the end of the Cold War, the government has allowed Wall Street to determine who owns, builds, and profits from defense spending.
The consequence, as with much of our economic machinery, are predictable. Higher prices, worse quality, lower output. Wall Street and private equity firms prioritize cash out first, and that means a once functioning and nimble industrial base now produces more grift than anything else.
The signs are unmistakable. In Ukraine, fighters are rationing shells. Taiwan can’t get weapons it ordered years ago. The Pentagon has put together a secret team to scour stockpiles to find high-precision armaments in demand on every battlefield and potential battlefield. But the problem goes beyond national defense. In Lake City, Missouri, the largest small arms ammunition plant in the world has decided all ammo production is going to the military, meaning that there is going to be a domestic shortage for hunters, sportsmen, and maybe even police. This shortage may look like a story of a sudden surge in demand, but it’s actually, as Elle Ekman wrote in the Prospect in 2021, a story of consolidation and de-industrialization.
~Snip~
More to the point, the Pentagon is very powerful. The Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks could simply start smashing heads on competition and begin telling contractors that if they don’t shape up, she will start an internal war against them. Or the head of the Armed Services Committees could threaten the cushy cash flow that leads to record stock buybacks among contractors, if the ramp-up doesn’t start. Or they could grant antitrust authority for the DOD straight-up, which would rely on a national security standard that allows widespread corporate restructuring without the long slog of a court case. There are many paths.
But if you actually look at the guts of the bureaucracy, nothing is happening, because doing something about our industrial base means thwarting Wall Street, and that’s generally not something that’s considered on the table among normie policymakers. Giant bureaucracies are hard to change, but they are not immovable. One of the ways that you know a previously non-functional bureaucracy is on the right track is, ironically, if there is bitter infighting and anger among staff, who are being tasked to do things differently. But as the GAO showed this week, that’s just not happening in the Pentagon, or at least, not happening nearly fast enough.
And that’s why America is increasingly out of ammunition.

Commentary:
Word is Biden said that Lake City can only produce for the military and approved contracts.
Recent damage to Hornady factory.
As I've previously posted here, Democrat have allowed corporations to manufacture offshore rather than in America creating a service oriented nation and no longer capable of manufacturing.
It's clear the President and Congress are beholden to not only to bankers but the military, including major contractors/vendors.
Virtually everything wrong with America, from climate change to lack of universal healthcare to the military industrial complex, traces back to the 1% control of America and our destiny.
At least we have, for now, the freedom to gripe about it.
Then there's companies being snatched up by foreign investors.
To think, in the 1940's America was capable of doing all this without any Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion specialists or affirmative-action hires. Those racists.
Divide and conquer. America couldn't be more divided.
See: Divide | Encyclopedia.com
"The policy of maintaining control over one's subordinates or opponents by encouraging dissent between them, thereby preventing them from uniting in opposition."

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Canada hasn't had a war in eighty years. How are they running low on artillery shells? Are they shooting at us? Sending that old dangerous surplus junk to Ukraine beats dumping it in the ocean.

Since when did shells become surplus junk? Do you think they have an expiration date like milk?