Inside The US Factory Making Ukraine’s Most Important Ammo

They need to produce 24,000 a day... not monthly

War started 2014, not 2022.

When I was in the Marine Corps, we were shooting 155mm & 203mm rounds & powder which was made during the 1960's for the 155mm & 1950's for the M203mm rounds. It was a very sad day when the Pentagon decided to retire the M110 8" self propelled howitzers, which a lot of the Marines, including myself, loved. We could move all over the battlefield & fire from a static site or we could roam all over & fire from slap shot positions. These howitzers were capable of firing a RAP round 30KM inside of a garbage can. That was done by the precision sights. That kind of precision has not been able to be achieved even with the M777 155mm RAP round. Also the 8" howitzers were capable of firing nuclear rounds. I know this to be a fact since I went through a class at Norfolk Naval base on how to arm & disarm a nuclear artillery round.

We spend nearly a trillion dollars a year on our military. Are you telling me that we can't afford this? We have all sorts of super expensive gadgets that may or may not be used. This is something we definitely need right now, and will need in the future as well. Damn the cost. How much does one F35 cost?

Artillery fires shells - not bullets. Being 'shot at' by artillery is referred to as being shelled.

the us is not burning thru their supplies, rather they should ramp up the production lines that means employment for all. do not kid the world with this rhetoric. increase to war footing of 37000 a month

34 nations manufacture 155mm rounds. The US manufactures one half of Ukraine's daily usage on a monthly basis. The other 33 nations produce a sufficient number collectively. Apply supply and demand rules and there is a LOT of money to be made. If the US ramps up production and adds another facility or two, we can provide enough to keep our supply at safe levels.

I live in Scranton, it makes me proud!

That’s a good opportunity for US steel industry to grow up and new jobs!

We have allowed the senseless demolition of hundreds of factories in the US that were capable of producing in the same manner of this one. Remaining plants, including those that are sitting idle and neglected, must be preserved at all cost.

thanks for that informations!

Very informative film. Thank you.

Anyone wild enough to worry about US stockpiles of any kind of weaponry, has apparently never paid taxes in the US, or paid attention to the funding of our military industrial complex.

Any one know how many arty factory's Us and europe have up and running and possible for restore and get operational?

keep up the good work

Impressive.

Ukraine also needs a lot of 152mm and 122mm rounds (Russian calibre) as that is what the majority of their artillery is. Poland/Bulgaria supplies it.

IMO The fact that Russia couldn't achieve air dominance is just shows how down right pathetic their airforce is!

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We need to build another factory underground In the old coal mines of PA with robots and modern tech.