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Guaranteed Artillery Contracts: A Shortcut to End the War? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ukraine is running short on artillery, which is causing a slowdown in its counteroffensive. Why isn't the West meeting Ukraine's needs? The problem is production capacity: Western factories simply cannot produce the artillery shells as fast as Ukraine can fire them. Investing in production capacity could easily bridge the gap. However, weapons manufacturers are nervous that demand for shells will disappear as soon as the war ends, leaving the infrastructure investments unprofitable. This video explains how guaranteed contracts solve that problem and simultaneously encourage Russia's retreat even before the assembly lines are up and running.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@barsoap @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Guaranteeing compensation for an order of artillery shells seems like it should be a trivial concept. Leave it to government to complicate simple business and ignore incentive.

Yes, the west has a security interest in negating the combat power of one of their largest geopolitical rivals. Will shells alone win the war? I'm not that optimistic. However, regardless of additional artillery shells' impact on the war, the US has a duty to be prepared for China.

[+] skillissuer 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@skillissuer Increasingly so, I'd say. The cadre of highly proficient troops we trained in maneuver warfare has been attrited. The conscripts, and the Soviet-tactic pensioners leading them, need artillery.

[+] skillissuer 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@skillissuer Hey man, I'm not disagreeing. I only said that the more one relies on lesser trained troops with eastern doctrine, one increasingly uses artillery. We're on the same page.

Artillery is indispensable in large scale combat operations.

[–] Spacebar 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ukrain should not be using less shells than Russia. Fixing that discrepancy seems at the minimum to be necessary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

@Spacebar @barsoap Ukraine especially needs to expend more artillery than Russia during shaping phases of counteroffensives.

If they cannot, the operation is started on a back foot.

[–] BombOmOm 0 points 1 year ago

Even if all it does is get artillery production going faster, it is needed.