The US Army is going to increase the amount of purchased ammunition for years to come

When drawing up the US Army budget for 2024, the command is going to request permission to purchase more ammunition for several years in advance. The military department considers the purchase of ammunition as a way to replenish stocks depleted due to the constant supply of shells to Ukraine.

US Army Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Doug Bush noted that the Army will begin purchasing ammunition for several years in advance. The official stressed that it is not yet known how long the Ukrainian conflict will last. The US Department of Defense intends to increase its peacetime ammunition stockpile in any case, regardless of the duration of the Ukrainian conflict.

While the Pentagon is trying to keep the amount of munitions it has a secret, according to some reports, the United States is indeed running out of a number of types of ammunition, as well as weapons systems. This situation seriously worries representatives of the country's Ministry of Defense, since supplies to Ukraine do not stop, and the combat effectiveness of the US armed forces themselves is reduced as a result.

The American press reports that the volume of supplies of ammunition to Ukraine has led to the fact that the shells are used up faster than the United States has time to produce them. In European NATO countries, the situation with the operational production of ammunition is even worse. It turned out to be an impossible task to transfer European, and American industry as well, to a military footing as quickly as possible.

In addition, the production of ammunition depends not only on military factories, but also on enterprises that produce chemicals, on the metallurgical industry, and it is very difficult to achieve an increase in production rates in any civilian companies in peacetime.

The US administration is going to increase investment in private companies. But will it lead to the desired result? After all, it is very difficult to find a balance between the interests of private business, production efficiency and the needs of the army.

Comments

[rotmistr60]

permission to purchase more ammunition for several years ahead.

Before purchasing for several years in advance, this quantity must be produced. And this, as noted in the article, depends not on one enterprise of a certain direction, but on many. Gradual acquisition of a certain quantity with simultaneous consumption (for your own needs of others) will not allow you to create reserves for several years in advance. Here we'll see what happens. It turns out that the Soviet system of accumulating ammunition in warehouses for long-term storage is more efficient.

[your1970]

Quote: rotmistr60

Before purchasing for several years in advance, this quantity must be produced.

this requires a state order, otherwise no one will produce them.
"You can also have chairs in the evening..
But money - go ahead !!!! "(c) 12 chairs

[blackGRAIL]

He already is. The USA announced a large-scale increase in the production of 155mm shells - the capacity expansion program is designed for two years, according to the results, the output will be increased to 1.080 shells (more than 000 times).

[Andy_nsk]

It turns out that the Soviet system of accumulating ammunition in warehouses for long-term storage is more efficient.

Not at all ... The USSR collapsed not because there were few ammunition in the warehouses, but because the market economy provides a higher standard of living for the population - sausage in stores, cars in garages, etc. people need more in everyday life than shells and tanks.

[Volunteer Marek]

Of course, it is necessary to count other people's arsenals. But don't forget about yours either.

[Illanatol]

Quote from Andy_nsk

The USSR collapsed not because there was little ammunition in the warehouses, but because the market economy provides a higher standard of living for the population - sausage in stores, cars in garages, etc. people need more in everyday life than shells and tanks.

There will be no shells and tanks - there will be no sausages and cars either.
Only those who are able to defend it, if necessary, even with weapons, have the right to property.
Otherwise ... "you are to blame for the fact that I want to eat."

It is not the market economy that creates abundance, but the abundance that makes the market economy possible. Demand creates supply, not the other way around.

[Andy_nsk]

It is not the market economy that creates abundance, but the abundance that makes the market economy possible.

Under a planned economy, it is impossible to provide the population with goods, there will always be a shortage (do you know that word?), A market economy does this much better. At the same time, in the USSR, three-quarters of the industry directly worked for the Moscow Region (I remember this well from the plants in Novosib), i.e. extremely inefficient, in Europe and America it was the other way around, people with their needs came first, but in our country people were thought of only at party congresses, for oranges and chocolates for children we had to fly to Moscow before the New Year (it was good the opportunity to go on a business trip) ... the Chinese comrades realized it in time and began to transfer their economy to a market economy, and a powerful economic breakthrough is connected with this, otherwise they would still consider a cup of rice as happiness ... And now the armed develop forces (look at the pace at which they are building a fleet), and ensure a normal life for people. We still have an oligarchy of "our" people, a parody of the free market. It seems that you either did not live in the USSR, or lived in M-ve or another "capital" (there was a special supply), or received rations as a party nomenklatura.

[Vadim Topal Pasha]

Quote from: blackGRAIL

He already is. The USA announced a large-scale increase in the production of 155mm shells - the capacity expansion program is designed for two years, according to the results, the output will be increased to 1.080 shells (more than 000 times).

... despite the fact that the most industrially weak of the Great Powers, the Russian Empire, during WWI, produced tens of millions of shells ... I am already silent about production during WWII, ...

[Vadim Topal Pasha]

Quote from Andy_nsk

It turns out that the Soviet system of accumulating ammunition in warehouses for long-term storage is more efficient.

Not at all ... The USSR collapsed not because there were few ammunition in the warehouses, but because the market economy provides a higher standard of living for the population - sausage in stores, cars in garages, etc. people need more in everyday life than shells and tanks.

What the fuck is sausage under capitalism? Wherever you spit - "meat product". those. There from meat only smell and traces.

[your1970]

Quote: Vadim Topal-Pasha

Quote from Andy_nsk

It turns out that the Soviet system of accumulating ammunition in warehouses for long-term storage is more efficient.

Not at all ... The USSR collapsed not because there were few ammunition in the warehouses, but because the market economy provides a higher standard of living for the population - sausage in stores, cars in garages, etc. people need more in everyday life than shells and tanks.

What the fuck is sausage under capitalism? Wherever you spit - "meat product". those. There from meat only smell and traces.

Well, let's put it under Soviet rule, the plan and additions to the plan, as well as the wild theft of meat at meat processing plants by workers - there was no meat in Soviet sausage either ..
The skin, lard, cartilage, offal - were, but there was no meat, there was not ....