Wating on parts from Hunters pals the cccp? 😳
Just another reason that not a single dime should be spent on Ukraine.
If you didn’t give so much away you wouldn’t be short all the time
I am still incredulous at the lack of contingency planning, almost across the board.
That said, we DO have far more than enough HIMARS and could certainly send 60, maybe 80*, equip some with GLSDB’s that have 150 km range, 1 meter accuracy, and one version can hit moving targets. Go to work on Russian logistics...
Without ammo, Russia’s artillery advantage is no more.
*Scheduled receipts to US inventory are said to be ~96 in 2023, we should have had around 400 in stock, maybe a few more, as of 1/1/2023.
Which means there is a lack of machine tool operators, too
Which means much of that skill and knowledge has disappeared from the USA
Shipping production overseas so Wall Street private equity can service a few more pennies of debt is really showing its long-term effects.
Our machine tools are over in China.
Why don’t we order ammunition from them?
Oh wait…
If things are bad now, just think about how bad they’d be if Biden should blunder us into a war with China and/or Russia.
Side note to Slow Joe: I grew up near a steel mill that rolled battleship and tank armor in WW II. Don’t count on this mill now. It’s gone, replaced by a dollar store that sells cheap Chinese crap.
Maybe we could buy some ammo from China?
Some years ago, machinists were low on the pay scale and a lot of people left the trade for more promising careers in fast food and groceries.
Wow. Nobody could have seen this coming - except those of us watching American manufacturing being hollowed out since 1976.
This can go back to Obama shutting down domestic lead protection.
Ping.
Whatever happened to Letterkenny, Picatinny, Scranton and Tobyhanna munitions manufacturing centers?
The vanishing machine tools were an Emergency Gift to the People’s State of Ukraine…
Maybe our manufacturing capacity shouldn’t have been sold off to China by a bunch of idiots.