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Friday, January 27, 2023
Rebuilding U.S. Inventories: Six Critical Systems
As the United States transfers massive amounts of weapons, munitions, and supplies to Ukraine, questions arise about the health of U.S. inventories. Are inventories getting too low? How long will it take to rebuild those inventories? An earlier CSIS commentary identified those inventories that are at risk as a result of transfers to Ukraine. This commentary continues that analysis by examining inventory replacement times. Most inventories, though not all, will take many years to replace. For most items, there are workarounds, but there may be a crisis brewing over artillery ammunition.
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Our build rate for anything bigger than 20mm is far less than our burn rate in any sort of conflict. And Congress in their 'wisdom' has decided that we need to stockpile less than the experts say (which is already lowered by the political climate).
ReplyDeleteThings like Stingers and Javelins? Not only our our stocks depleted, but also our NATO allies. You know who hasn't been throwing their stuff away? The CCP.
Ukrainians were the shooters in Las Vegas. Same ones that were doing the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. Ya'll remember that clusterfuck investigated by great guy joe lombardo that concluded a lone dead guy did it. And the $millions$ in transfer thru advance notice to short $ell Mandalay Bay hotel stock; well that's terribly inconvenient to look at.The tragedy and criminality of the whole thing is nausiating
Deletenot really off-topic, but how about looking at the unbelievably massive amounts of cash being transferred to the Ukraine while we're at it.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't sent cash to Ukraine. The money is spent here to get the stuff to send to Ukraine.
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Deleteyou just continue to believe that
Add some trivial feature, bump up the letter at the end of the military designation. For example the article mentions M795 155mm howitzer shell. A google search reveals we are up to M795E1, so we need to replace it with the M795E2. At double the price. Even better would be a M795F1, for triple the price. It's all good!
ReplyDeleteOr maybe, Defund Ukraine!
Higher production of 155 shells has been ordered. From what I understand, production is also spooling up in other countries, and Ukraine has also established production for themselves.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am trying to understand is that a 20 year war ended two years ago where we had an ample supply of munitions. After a year of sending munitions to Ukraine how are we so low on inventory?
ReplyDeleteYou forgot about the $1 billion of ammunition and equipment in Afghanistan. That was August 2021. In July 2021, we still owned that inventory.
DeleteYeah...but what about our 'Peace Dividend'? Anyone remember that BS?
ReplyDeleteAnd a lot of evil insider politicians are going to get rich of the 'rebuild' of our inventories....
ReplyDeleteWe didn’t take a lot or shoot a lof artillery in Iraq or the stan
ReplyDeleteSend thousands of swords to Ukraine so the they can fight like their ancestors and die like men,
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