Ukraine war: Western allies say they are running out of ammunition

Ukraine war: Western allies say they are running out of ammunition(bbc.com)

9 points by throwrqX 2 years ago | 4 comments

bell-cot 2 years ago |

This sort of big-picture military incompetence has a rather long history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Crisis_of_1915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo#Supply_and_pro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_services_and_supply_i...

Etc. etc. etc...

drt5b7j 2 years ago | |

Thanks for this. The West has been such an embarrasingly flaky ally :-(

ggm 2 years ago |

Normally I'd be deep into Hanlon's law and things, but the assumption there hasn't been a conversation about ramping up supply is faulty. I am sure there has been and it's been fraught because just like during mask times, manufacturers want guarantees of income and investing in the supply chain stocks and labour and production and logistics incurs costs up-front. In the mask case, the domestic suppliers said "we used to make this stuff but you went least cost and we lost money on the capex, so tell me why I should be fooled twice, which is more fool me"

I think that seeing the bottom of the barrel is euphemistic for "guys, we really have to settle this contract" -not "there are no more shells"

RelativeDelta 2 years ago | |

One would hope so.

The WW3 factions are lining up, so it seems inevitable that the sides would start to arm themselves in preparation.