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The point is not whether US/NATO would fight an artillery war. The point is about proving your industrial base's manufacturing capacity. Artillery shells should
by _xnmw 2y ago
The point is not whether US/NATO would fight an artillery war. The point is about proving your industrial base's manufacturing capacity. Artillery shells should be relatively cheap and easy to produce. It's a really bad sign if America is such a bureaucratic mess right now that production can't be ramped quickly. Doesn't bode well for future war, doesn't demonstrate capability.
- bluGill 2y agoThe US doesn't want an artillery war, so they don't need that, and therefore I disagree. However it is bad that we haven't scaled up patriot production as that is something we would need and should know (in fact we knew that 20 years ago after the gulf war). While asking we should also question how fast we can scale up F35 production along with all the various arms the F35 carries.
- _xnmw 2y agoThe US may not want an artillery war, but the US needs to inspire confidence among partners and allies, and this sort of manufacturing failure really sends a bad signal. No wonder half of Africa is turning away from US/Western partners and looking towards Russia.