Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

When they weren't suffering shell hunger they engineered what the russians called an artillery genocide.  At best, the russians have a 2-1 numerical advantage in artillery pieces, assuming everything russia has listed actually exists and is functional.  It started out worse, the russians numerical advantage hasn't worked out for them.

The us isn't actually the key piece on this one, because most of their arty, 2/3rds or 3/4s I can't recall offhand, is soviet standard.  We don't have that stuff.  We don't make that stuff.  We don't use that stuff.  We play war daddy, going around the world buying it up...but people have been telling us no.  What they need from us are patriots and short range air defense...which won't help with the arty situation, but it would put a damper on the terror attacks and give ukrainian mechanized forces a way to advance in the face of k series helicopters.

The U.S. is ramping-up its capacity of artillery shell production. So does France (Emmanuel Macron has even used the term “war economy”).
 
The shortage of artillery shells is a serious issue in trench warfare.
Russia is producing 250,000 artillery shells a month / 3 million per year.
The US has set a goal of producing 100,000 artillery shells a month / 1,2 million a year by 2025.
 
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/polit...index.html
 
Still the US artillery shell stockpile seem to be in the 400 million or more.
 
So the US should be able to send more artillery shells without any fear of running out of shells like most European countries.