US Army says Congress doubled funds for 155 artillery

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

May 2, 2024 5:53 PM EDT Updated 10 hours ago


WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army said Congress doubled to $6 billion its funding request for buying and building 155 millimeter artillery rounds to replace stocks depleted by shipments to Ukraine and now Israel, an Army official said on Thursday.

Demand for 155 mm artillery rounds has soared since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Allies' supplies for their own defense have been run down as they have rushed shells to Kyiv, which fires thousands of rounds per day.

"By my math, the supplemental, we asked for about $3.1 billion related to 155 production and production increases. We appear to have gotten $6 billion. So that, I think, is a vote of confidence as we make our way to 100,000 shells a month." Doug Bush, the chief weapons buyer for the Army, said Tuesday

The U.S. Army included $3.1 billion to buy the artillery rounds and expand production in the recently signed $95 billion supplemental bill.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-army-says-congress-doubled-funds-155-artillery-2024-05-02/

[Bucky]

1. It's like we are relearning the lessons of WW1

Military expectations are being upended by re-realizing how important artillery barrages are the modern warfare.

The world's fighters are over prepared for a brief sudden conflicts because short wars are more politically acceptable to the voting publics of the world. The generals and war planners have forgotten that the most important wars are the ones that take a long time--and those are the ones that consume all the ammo.

[James48]

2. less than a third of what is needed.

i'VE BEEN SAYING FOR TWO YEARS- this country needs to wake the f up and start mobilizing production of conventional artillery shells, because it isn't going to stop any time soon, and we can't produce them anywhere near fast enough.

[Redleg]

3. Artillery still is the King of Battle

At least in the opinion of this former cannon-cocker.