{"id":25595,"date":"2023-02-06T14:21:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25595"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:22:43","slug":"pentagon-will-increase-artillery-production-sixfold-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25595","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Will Increase Artillery Production Sixfold for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/24dc-artillery-1-mzpc-facebookJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"152\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The Army\u2019s top acquisition official says production of the 155-millimeter shells badly needed by Kyiv will rise to 90,000 a month in two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/24\/us\/politics\/pentagon-ukraine-ammunition.html\">Pentagon Will Increase Artillery Production Sixfold for Ukraine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>invest in artillery shell makers?  and guns?  but broken windows!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So far the United States has sent <em><strong>more than one million<\/strong><\/em> of the explosive projectiles to Ukraine, while other NATO countries and major non-NATO allies of the United States have also contributed shells, largely without disclosing how many.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/29\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-war-artillery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/29\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-war-artillery.html<\/a> doesn&#8217;t mention how many shells; i recall reading Russia was firing ~65K\/day in early summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army\u2019s top acquisition official says production of the 155-millimeter shells badly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1660,402,474,57,56],"class_list":["post-25595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-artillery","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}