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> We can barely produce enough weapons and ammunition for Ukraine Ukraine is fighting a completely different war, with a completely different military doctrine
by maximinus_thrax 3y ago
> We can barely produce enough weapons and ammunition for Ukraine
Ukraine is fighting a completely different war, with a completely different military doctrine, which requires different type of weapons and ammo. We're rarely sending what we are actually using. The US is not depleting its own ammo warchest to supply Ukraine. For example, the US is not big on artillery shells in general. We prefer rockets.
If the US moves to a wartime economy, I bet it will have a production capacity never before seen in history.
- jacquesm 3y agoI'm not so sure about that. Manufacturing has been leaving the US for decades and the kind of capacity that was there at the end of WWII and the peak of the cold war was likely much higher compared to where things are today.