Some more thoughts: Its possible the US is “low on ammo” in the sense that they don’t have enough 155 rounds to meet contingency plans for war in pacific AND arm Ukraine. But what are those CONPLANs calling for? 1M, 2M or 3M rounds? at the same time there’s still massive stock piles . Either way though, I believe the American defense industry will find a way to innovate in the face of new challeneges but what do I know I'm just using my infantry maths. The sudden increase in demand for 155mm artillery shells after relatively little demand for decades has strained the system but that doesnt mean it can't adjust. behind the scene updates: instagram.com/cappyarmy or thoughts on twitter.com/Cappyarmy

@rocko7711

9 ай бұрын

Better get cranking on making more shells

@CineGisticMedia

9 ай бұрын

Perhaps when politicians say "low" they are speaking relatively. Maybe we had enough for our last mission. But consider what we have low for what we are about to get into.

@Kim-J312

9 ай бұрын

Means alot of jobs jobs jobs in manufacturing 🇺🇸💪 . Let's get crackin '

@hansolowe19

9 ай бұрын

Scary beep around 15:30

@charlesmartin1121

9 ай бұрын

3:50 Hey Cappy, does that AR-15 you are holding have a mid-length gas system? If so how does it shoot compared with the M4 you were issued in the Army? Thanks.

I always find it amusing when people think the US military is tapping into it's wartime reserves. Congress mandates that the US military must keep a certain amount of ammunition to be prepared for war. The only stockpile that is running out is whats avaliable to donate and sell to other countries.

@johnbarker256

9 ай бұрын

We got our product aaaaand our personal stash

@carlthor91

9 ай бұрын

@@johnbarker256 That's it, but, tell that to the dough heads.

@airon89toyota

9 ай бұрын

I don't think anyone believes the US is black on ammo. The question is, how long can we go if we have another sustained conflict.

@Stan_the_Belgian

9 ай бұрын

That's the summary of this vid

@geronimo5537

9 ай бұрын

All this does for me is scream weak link in the chain. If we the US went into war. How easily these limited production locations could be removed and suddenly this vulnerability is noticed.

"Low on ammo" for the US actually means "We only have enough ammunition to sustain a full scale war against China, Russia, North Korea and Iran combined for 15 years."

@Martocciaweb

9 ай бұрын

For shells, they are only relevant against Russia and North Korea. It’s not possible for the US to use 155mm shells in a Taiwan Straight scenario. That’s a Taiwan problem to ensure they have sufficient stock.

@amrendrasingh9619

9 ай бұрын

lost korea, had to withdraw from vietnam,had to withdraw from iraq,had to withdraw from afganistan.Have you guys ever won a war , At this point i think u guys won ww2 thanks to uk and ussr.

@PotatoeJoe69

9 ай бұрын

@@amrendrasingh9619 Didn't lose Korea, South Korea exists because we won, withdrew from Vietnam because our own citizens decided it was a waste of time, not because we were losing battles, we left Iraq because we destroyed the Iraqi Army and got rid of Saddam, and we achieved our goals we set out to achieve when we went to Afghanistan. We went there to find Bin Laden. We found him after he fled Afghanistan to Pakistan. We stayed afterwards in an attempt to help the populace and rebuild, they obviously weren't interested. We definitely overstayed, but we did the job we went there to do. The UK was crumbling, and you should really look up how much equipment, fuel, food, ammo, weapons, boots, trucks, tanks planes nd everything else we have to the USSR before we ever entered the war. The numbers of things we sent the USSR is absolutely astronomically huge. It's unfortunate. We shouldn't have given the Russians anything. Stalin himself said Russia would've been defeated without US' lend-lease. Do some research.

@Carbon_Based_Life_Form

9 ай бұрын

@@amrendrasingh9619 Iraq and Afghanistan had their militaries completely annihilated within just a few days. Large scale operations ended over a decade ago. We were not operating actual military campaigns, but literally trying to keep multiple countries from falling apart by their own hands with as little military engagements as possible. That's why soldiers were always ordered to not shoot first and to have to wait until fired upon, to prioritize minimum civilian casualties even if it means risking lives of the soldiers, which is especially difficult when fighting insurgency that uses civilians as shields. Do you really think those middle eastern countries would've survived if we actually decided to use even just 25% of our full militaristic capability? They knew better than to try to fight a direct 1 on 1 war with the US military they had to hide from US soldiers, kill their own people to get away and hurt our soldiers. We didn't "lose", we said just declared they're beyond saving, time for them to fend for themselves and good riddance

@kimmoj2570

9 ай бұрын

@PotatoJoe69 When you can afford it, many millions of artillery rounds is good to have. We Finns, Israelis and S-Koreans too have many, many millions rounds in stockpile, and domestic production capacity. Shells, fuzes and propellant. Finland is moving away from 122mm to wholesale 120mm mortar+155mm gun+(GMLRS)MLRS. Our DoD dont reveal numbers, but lot of 122mm what Ukrainian artillery fires today came from Finland. We have (had) mountain of ammo for 122mm guns.

Keep in mind that if you have a pool of ammo that is set aside in case it is needed for a war against Russia, sending shells from that pile to Ukraine means that those shells are in fact being used for their intended use. It's just that they are being fired by Ukrainian soldiers instead of US or NATO soldiers.

@StylesEste

9 ай бұрын

That's also the mindset of Estonia and Finland. Anyone fighting Russia deserves their ammunition supplies. "One Russian tank destroyed by Ukrainian is One Russian tank Estonia does not have to deal with." Kind of 'the enemy of my brother' kind of thing. That, and Poland, Poland's national arms build up is starting to scare Europe itself, lawls.

@zacharyolds1639

9 ай бұрын

plus we get fresh gear

@StylesEste

9 ай бұрын

@user-nz2tt1tl2t You'll have to actually post the Secretary General's words on that, about abandoning Eastern Europe, bud. ;) I'm Lithuanian, by the way. Though I live in America. I know Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland have been readily gearing up for war against Russia since '39.

@tylee8055

9 ай бұрын

@user-nz2tt1tl2t I farted..

@caesarsalad1170

9 ай бұрын

More proxy wars yay

Most militaries rotate their ammunition, because a lot of them have "use by dates" and also, they are always in rotation, putting the oldest ammo in use and often that is for training purposes. Ukraine has provided a place to not only move the older stock out, but to live test the capabilities of the equipment and weapons being used.

@bdobson1616

2 ай бұрын

As well as our old equipment

@MrTankerboy182

28 күн бұрын

I have heard this testing argument used a lot lately, we were just in 2 wars for over 20 years. The US had plenty of time to test all of this equipment. Apart from anti-Tank weapons which are not new we tested everything else.

The production issue for all military munitions is the fact that each part of the missile or vehicle is the length of the supply chain is being too long and not shortened like in WW2. Everything was produced in America and was able to reach coast to coast in a certain time frame that was predictable.

@duncanharrell5009

9 ай бұрын

They were also much simpler. While I’d love to see us crank out a bomber a day like we did back then, modern weapons, vehicles, and munitions are a lot more complicated and computerized, requiring resources from all over the globe.

@ArchOfficial

9 ай бұрын

Apart from small arms munitions, everything is orders of magnitude more complicated and due to that more expensive now. The US cannot realistically produce all of their stuff domestically without inflating the budget 10-20% of GDP. Nobody can. Even if you assemble them in-country, someone somewhere will have produced some component.

@MK_ULTRA420

9 ай бұрын

@@duncanharrell5009 We could do that but the USA doesn't have enemies besides minor powers and terrorist groups. We're not enemies with Russia either yet; I can still sell to Russians via eBay, and Russia still sells energy to the USA.

@iDreamOfWeenie

9 ай бұрын

@@duncanharrell5009 they were simpler compared to now but also cutting edge tech at the time so that wouldn’t make a major difference

@5678sothourn

9 ай бұрын

​@@iDreamOfWeeniethe Sherman was far from cutting edge. Its simplicity is how we were able to drown the germans with them

The issue isn't lean manufacturing, it's that the capacity is scaled to the orders. The USG wasn't willing to pay Boeing, Raytheon, BAE etc to maintain idle capacity so as private industries they shut down the idle capacity. If the USG is willing to pay for idle capacity the DIB will maintain the spare capacity.

As a side bar, the Japanese learned their manufacturing processes from Dr. Edward Demming. Remarkable man. The Americans were late to the ball game, but eventually caught up. Love the content. Keep up the high standards

@edwardblair4096

9 ай бұрын

As I understand it, he tried to talk to US companies, but they were not interested.

@1gtmach

9 ай бұрын

Hey I remember Demming. We were taking classes on him, the process in the plant almost 3 decades ago. Dr Demming. Forgot all about that.

@michaelfreiberg8057

8 ай бұрын

not really. Demming promoted statistical quality control. The Toyota system was mostly perfected by Shigeo Shingo

@Scriptedviolince

7 ай бұрын

They didn't necessarily catch up, they rote learned it without understanding any of the nuances. America just heard "stockpile nothing" when the Japanese learned "keep as few stocks of non-critical components as necessary". This was seen during Corona when American car companies had huge parking lots of non-functional car chassis while Japanese were continuing to pump out cars. Japanese manufacturers had identified electronics and chips as "critical components" and kept huge stocks of those while American companies didn't bother stocking anything.

@dankelly2147

7 ай бұрын

As a literal student of Demming and former corporate executive who flattened his forehead with American corporate misunderstanding of Demmi gs philosophy of management, I appreciate the vast difference between American manufacturing and that of Japan. @scriptedviolence nailed it (comment above mine).

The sheer size of the federal budget is wild when I heard expansion would take $1 billion per year and I'm like oh that's it, that's like the copy paper budget for the Pentagon.

@Stan_the_Belgian

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@EMan-cu5zo

9 ай бұрын

It’s ridiculous.

@SpicyTake

9 ай бұрын

Money is make believe. This issue is steel, chemicals and skilled workers. Short on all them.

@aaroncousins4750

9 ай бұрын

​@@SpicyTakeand how does one obtain steel? Oh yes, money. How does one obtain skilled workers? Oh yes, money. Money, even if "on paper" is worthless. In reality it represents the transfer of goods. It just introduces a middle man between swapping one good for another

@xxgodskrpxx9848

9 ай бұрын

​@@SpicyTake its an equivalent to the gold we have in our banks. tf you mean its make believe?😂 gtfo if thats what you think and gimme all yo money since its make believe, you wouldn't need it right?

I think there may be another consideration here. If we over produce and store, the manufacturing plants will get converted to something else. The knowledge and machining will be lost. Keeping the plants "slow rolling" keeps the knowledge around, and there will also be a small amount of lower cost innovation. When a "ramp up" is needed, that knowledge will be absolutely invaluable. It is easier to create any factory when there is a pattern and process already in place, than it is to create the factory, the process, the plan all from scratch.

@Knight_Kin

9 ай бұрын

Right that's why it was good the last Abrams factory remained opened in 2017-2018 because that entire knowledge base of tank production would have been lost by now. Best to keep a minimized industry going at a slow pace when demand is low. I would say the boosting of the artillery production is a good thing but understandable it was not needed before given the intensity of US conflicts with artillery in recent decades.

@wolfgangjr74

9 ай бұрын

@@Knight_Kin Shame the bean counters and tax evaders in our country see otherwise. There is merit to keeping the beast going on life support when its not needed.

@SerpkoBakotiinii

9 ай бұрын

You are right. It is easy to increase production, but if the conflict ends, then all this additional capacity will go bankrupt. And this can lead to the collapse of entire industries.

@mandarinandthetenrings2201

9 ай бұрын

No that not happening but understand, we as United States are not a "one trick pony" we don't rely on just one form of weaponry. We a variety of weapons when attacking any enemy making it very hard to stop us.

@everettputerbaugh3996

9 ай бұрын

A high percentage of ammo plants are owned by DoD and operated under contract. DoD will have the same problem as the auto industry found during COVID; namely that the munitions use outdated technology. Raytheon has to scramble to restart decades long dismantled lines for Stingers and to a lessor degree, Javelins. (To their credit, the new Javelin launchers can also do Stingers, an improvement upon the old Stinger launcher.)

Speaking as an employee within the ‘military industrial complex’, you better believe if the government wants to boost production and can show steady demand for years, industry will respond as fast as possible. However, we are being faced with the same labor shortages that the rest of the economy is facing and that is a direct impact on the health of the supply chain and it’s ability to pivot

@SeanD808

9 ай бұрын

After 2 years of inflation they need to pay more....

@michaelhowell2326

9 ай бұрын

Industry giants complaining about lack of labor is hilarious. I'm not pointing at you the individual in particular. Just the companies.

@wolfgangjr74

9 ай бұрын

Labor shortage artificially created by refusal to pay appropriate wages and benefits and to an extent our degradation of education by republicans. Sad but true facts.

@sarahbrown5073

9 ай бұрын

...and we're dealing with inflation problems that increased weapons production will only exacerbate. It adds currency to the civilian economy, uses resources, but doesn't provide any goods or services for the economy. WW2 weapons production helped the domestic economy because we were in a deflationary depression....too many goods, not enough currency in circulation. That is definitely not our current economic situation.

@doujinflip

9 ай бұрын

It's also the rising minimum education required to train the workers. No longer is a middle school dropout sufficient to put on the line, the robots we use now need postsecondary schooling to program and maintain. It doesn't help that companies also don't do as much OJT as they used to for their often very specific processes, instead mooching off universities, military, and competitors for the so-called "3~5 years experience" in their entry level.

Thanks Infantryman! Useful stuff and well presented!

Never underestimate the United States' industrial ability to ramp up when needed. Never bet against US Industry. I am a retired engineer from DuPont on the government end of contracted products production. In my area, during the 1st Gulf War, we ramped up production to over 300% in 1 month to fulfill the projected needs of the worst-case scenario. And we all know how eager our government is in spending on defense. And yes, if you throw vast amounts of money into a manufacturing issue, it will become a nonissue.

@trolleriffic

8 ай бұрын

There might not be as much spare capacity in the industry now as there was during the first Gulf War. Don't forget that was at the tail end of the Cold War before all the "Peace Dividend" BS had taken hold and politicians everywhere decided that investing in defence no longer mattered so they had billions in free money to buy votes elsewhere. I get the impression that the industry is much more pared-down than it was after decades of cost-cutting and closures, and combine that with the more high tech nature of modern weapons, and it's not as rosy an outlook as it used to be.

@martinenglish6641

7 ай бұрын

Point well maid, but I have 1 response to ponder upon. "The Manhattan Project."@@trolleriffic

@orangequill1645

7 ай бұрын

@@trollerifficHave you seen the defense budget

“You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish you had at a later time.” - Donald Rumsfeld

@SaanMigwell

9 ай бұрын

Pretty sure Rummy copied that from Smedley Butler, but General Butler is a pariah in both life and death, so yeah lets credit Scumsfeld.

@TomFynn

9 ай бұрын

Translation into human speak: We need the publicity now so we don't give a damn if the Army is ready for this war.

@xzox

9 ай бұрын

@@TomFynn I think you will find that the literal translation of 'publicity' is 'money' .... but, I may be wrong

@kentdoane4315

9 ай бұрын

We went to war with the SECDEF we had not the one we wish we had.

@mitchyoung93

9 ай бұрын

@@SaanMigwell War is a Racket....'I was muscle for United Fruit' or something to that effect.

Another aspect that doesn't get talked about is barrels. The M777 can fire about 2500 times before requiring a barrel replacement (yes, it varies on range, load, etc). So if you produce a million shells, you also need to be producing 400 barrels (or inserts/refurb etc). I was reading about how Putin let both Russian artillery barrel factories languish and combined with a lack of investment in producing military grade steel (which also is in demand for new tanks etc), they could run into real supply chain issues for artillery even though they can produce gobs of shells. The Russians have been tapering off the thousands upon thousands of rounds a day. They may run their barrels until they burn out, but doing so risks more damage to the entire piece. Worn barrels can lead to short rounds and massive dispersion requiring even more rounds be fired.

@MegaRazorback

9 ай бұрын

Or in a worse case scenario the Russian artillery piece blows up the moment the round is fired, it's not just the barrel that has a limited lifespan before full replacement is needed, things like the firing pin, breech assembly, recoil mechanism also have a finite lifespan and you sure as fuck don't want the last two failing EITHER.

@Martocciaweb

9 ай бұрын

I always wondered why barrel wear out is an issue against a peer adversary. If a gun can shoot 2500 shells without getting knocked out by counter battery fire, would that be normal?

@tomhenry897

9 ай бұрын

Ukraine already wearing out western artillery

@Krieghandt

9 ай бұрын

@@Martocciaweb shoot and scoot makes this probable. The M109 and PZG2000 can eat anything but a direct hit. So even if you get close, and the unit requires repairs, the gun should be fine.

@rerbitd7094

9 ай бұрын

Why are you lying ?

Tnx Chris great reporting and the best humor.

Love your reports. Very well prepared and very easy to listen too. Thanks for what you do.

I wish more people put this much effort into informing others with as little left/right bias as possible. Keep up the great work!

@noncog1

9 ай бұрын

Agreed

@deadfriendyouforgotabout8434

9 ай бұрын

@@gaydolfshitler739so edgy don’t cut the world in half

@jameslyddall

9 ай бұрын

Ryan Macbeth is very good Sub brief is naval version is also good Ward Carroll is air force related and is very good

@noncog1

9 ай бұрын

@@gaydolfshitler739 ok buddy. Impressive strength carrying all that bias around.

@xthee_0nly_1x11

9 ай бұрын

@@deadfriendyouforgotabout8434​​I like how you could not come up with any meaningful rebuttal, so you just resorted to calling him ‘edgy’. Ahh, leftists.☕️

Countries like Brazil and a few others may really enjoy this build up. There are many countries that make basic shells and even some fairly advanced ones. Even in WW2, on the beach in Normandy, the types of shells available did affect the ability to wage war. Things are more complicated today. I will hate to see this become a weakness. Outsourcing is a danger.

@khalidgagnon8753

9 ай бұрын

I agree. We need a way to secure the supply to a greater degree; especially rare-earth

@Knight_Kin

9 ай бұрын

@@khalidgagnon8753 Depending on the need, we may need to revisit the Greenland question in regards to rare earths.

@VisibilityFoggy

9 ай бұрын

Would be nice if Brazil had a president who wasn't a corrupt buddy of Putin.

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg

9 ай бұрын

@@Knight_Kin Yeah, let's swap something for Greenland

@thedude883

9 ай бұрын

​@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg May I recommend California???!!!!

Very informative and helpful context, research and facts on the topic. Thank you!

It has been really fun to watch the evolution of this channel. Really informative and interesting.

"It aint a party without the artey" - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

@Lightning613

9 ай бұрын

Nicely paraphrased for today’s understanding 👍

We also haven't been in a conflict that really required artillery for a while. Maybe a tad in Afghanistan. Munitions do have expiration dates. We are probably sending the oldest stuff to Ukraine... which allows us to rotate newer stuff into our own logistics chains.

@doomaster4

9 ай бұрын

155 don't expire but have plastic parts that get broken over time and rusty.

@kevinroberts781

9 ай бұрын

But! Look at the administration we are talking about. They do everything backwards.

@tedmoss

8 ай бұрын

@@mitchellcouchman6589 Yeah, I remember when I was working in the mines, I went back into an old shaft and found some dynamite that was very old, we estimated 20 to 30 years, needless to say I did not pick it up but it did not go off when we removed it.

@DjDolHaus86

8 ай бұрын

@@doomaster4They have an expected shelf life of around 15-25 years assuming a temperature/moisture controlled environment. This isn't to say that they're inoperable after this point but they can no longer be expected to work effectively in regards to accuracy, fusing, and effect on target so must be tested to ascertain the amount of remaining stabiliser before deployment.

@piotrd.4850

7 ай бұрын

@@DjDolHaus86 so 20 years of guaranteed parameters with tolerance and later deterioration

I would suggest that the public, including Cappy, does not know all of the demand levels for all types of ammunition and other expendables that might be needed in case of a more general war in Europe or in the event PRC decides to do something even more egregious than they have in recent history. Expendables get expended very fast. There were actually members of Congress who complained at the end of WW2 that we had too many Jeeps and too much ammunition on hand at the end of that war, which was won in a surprise event. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Thank you for this video. Very informative.

Also finding ultra pure polysilicon for chips is extremely difficult. I work at a facility that produces it, and demand has been extremely high for the last few years.

@danhobart4009

9 ай бұрын

Its literally just meting quartz and then preforming the czochralski method which has been perfected. The only holdup is equipment from asml and running the fab profitably.

@cspdx11

9 ай бұрын

​@@danhobart4009yeah sure it's that simple .. I am in the industry and yiu over simplify

@danhobart4009

9 ай бұрын

@@cspdx11 Oh fancy that, all three of us are part of 0.000000000001% of the population.

One big difference between now and what was done in WWII is that then we had huge manufacturing plants that could be converted into wartime manufacturing. These days, we have go ask those same plants that are now in China if they can help us out.

@carlthor91

9 ай бұрын

Yes, but, since 2013 a hell of a lot of reshoring has gone on.

@Rolf-farmedfacts-supervisor

9 ай бұрын

Norway here, thats not actually true..The vast maj.of NATOarmament is being made in other NATOcountries aswell. In Norway alone, we produce Excalibur, every optic and sensorarray in use on EVERY NATO tank&MRAPvehicle, NLAWS, all incend.and tracerammo in use, and several radar-systems. We invented the NASAM here, as we joined NATO in the 40'ies as one of the founding members BECAUSE of our neighnour in the north. And now, we are NewSoviets only neigybouring country they havent invaded yet...

@C21H30O2

9 ай бұрын

​@carlthor91 we have nowhere near as much manufacturing capability as we did even 20 years ago. Much less than in the 40's-60's.

@mutantryeff

9 ай бұрын

"The Land of the Free" is false advertising. We the PEOPLE have been enslaved by the 16th Amendment (D) after the 13th Amendment (R) freed the slaves. Current debt is paid off by future debt which really appears like a variation of a Ponzi scheme, and it takes more and more debt to sustain the economy. Debt is enslavement. If we didn't pay nearly $1.5T in interest on the debt per year we wouldn't need to be taxed so much; every taxpayer would have $10.5K in their pockets instead of sent to the IRS. CBDC and UBI will be the whips and chains to fully enslave everyone.

@matternst1442

9 ай бұрын

@@Rolf-farmedfacts-supervisorI didn’t hear about them invading Finland, or Poland? Norways the only one left eh?

Great video, thanks 👍

My dad used to be the head of command of the Iowa Army Munnitions Plant. He took us to a decommissioned nuclear missle complex in a city somewhere in Iowa.

In short: We're low on ammunition that we can give away, and we have a ridiculous amount of presumably the best of that ammo that we are not allowed to give away.

@rypdx

9 ай бұрын

It would be, ^^^ have you met America? I know civilians that have thousands of rounds and that’s just one person. I can only imagine all the arsenals located domestically and internationally

Australia recently opened a new production facility that will put out 100'000 rounds of 155mm per year. In other words, a country with 7% of the US population has built a single 155mm factory equivalent to 60% of US production. It's these kind of numbers that really show how badly the American MIC has been sleeping on artillery.

@LoveHammerMan

9 ай бұрын

Our doctrine calls for air superiority, air craft with precision guided munitions and CAS will always be better.

@user-cu6xb3xo2u

9 ай бұрын

Sorry, it's not enough for sk. When comes war zone in sk, we're going to shoot 155 mm 1 million per day.

@williamnunley3493

9 ай бұрын

Or that Americans prioritize other weapons systems.

@ztirociplus7270

9 ай бұрын

​@@LoveHammerMan the environment tho isn't always guaranteed to have air superiority advantage..i guess us Will make up the gap

@LoveHammerMan

9 ай бұрын

@@ztirociplus7270 The extreme proliferation of MANPADS is definitely an issue. However most American aircraft and munitions are able to target and fire from up to 300km away. We could park anywhere from and F-16 to an F-35 a COUNTRY away and lob precision munitions right into an enemy trench or moving vehicle in the sky or ground. Russia was even doing it during the initial Ukrainian counter offensive with KA-52 helicopters.

dude this is an incredible content and so well researched. Bravo

Whoever does the graphics and video editing is/are the goat

Great video as always! I think one of the main lessons from both Covid and the war in Ukraine is the vulnerability of the supply chain like you pointed out. I see it as a great opportunity to consolidate and bring back manufacturing to the United States.

@Frankie5Angels150

9 ай бұрын

Not under the democrats.

@matthewhuszarik4173

9 ай бұрын

China is much much more susceptible to supply chain issues than the US. For the US it is an inconvenience for China it is a matter of life and death.

@matthewhuszarik4173

9 ай бұрын

@@Frankie5Angels150It was the Republicans starting with Reagan that supported outsourcing all US manufacturing overseas. Those are the facts. Trump did absolutely nothing to change that, but give patronizing lip service. Those factory jobs he claims to have saved still went over seas.

@Shyhalu

9 ай бұрын

Won't happen, we haven't forgotten businesses and the government letting the careers of our parents and grandparents get sent overseas. Manufacturing has a major hurdle to compete for talent already with a massive increase to the types of jobs people can take (including online stuff). Back in the day workers had much fewer options.

@WhereisMelania

9 ай бұрын

@@Frankie5Angels150why? Reagan is who sent it all to china

Outstanding. This, like much of your coverage, is simply and clearly, yet comprehensively, covering a difficult topic, better than large media outlets do. If you're an average infrantryman, I can't imagine what an above average one can do. Well done.

Back when I was On the Reserve side as a 19D4H on AT at Ft. McCoy WI active force found stockpiles of WW II and Later ammo and explosives 27 semi-trailer loads were shipped to the base for NG and Reserves to burn up. 1944 Bangalore torpedoes, 1943-44 50 Cal for our M2 BMG. One range we went through a 10,000 round pallet of the 50 cal from 1943. Fun times, there may still be bunker loads from Gulf War One unchecked for years.

Thank you very informative

Even Greece (one of the smaller NATO countries) has enough shells to supply Ukraine for a year. (Unfortunately we can't). When I was enlisted (mandatory enlistment) I went inside hollowed out mountain (we have plenty of mountains) packed to the brim with artillery shells and we have many of these places. NATO forces are low on SURPLUS and training rounds ( not the blue ones) . Strategic reserves are huge. Unfortunately most NATO countries do not have the soviet type ammunition since everyone uses the 155mm standard.

@cyan_oxy6734

9 ай бұрын

Europe in general has much more capacity to manufacture shells. USA is used to do everything with missiles and air droped ordinance and shells take a lesser role.

@sheeplord4976

9 ай бұрын

I severely doubt that estimate.

@TheFrankvHoof

9 ай бұрын

Ukraine is firing off roughly 2000-3000 shells per day. In a year, that's 700.000-1M. I doubt that Greece actually has a stockpile of 1M 155mm artillery shells.

@ahmedmohamed-gx9xe

9 ай бұрын

​@@TheFrankvHoofI think they do because turkiye has much more than that.

@enriqueperezarce5485

9 ай бұрын

@@TheFrankvHoofThey probably do

I appreciate your work and definitely appreciate you keeping the left vs right stuff out. Just pure information which is rare these days. Thank you

@marsicogodofwar9280

9 ай бұрын

What does this have to do with right and left at all??

@michaelh4227

9 ай бұрын

@@marsicogodofwar9280 It could since it involves Biden and the issue of support of Ukraine which is increasingly becoming polarizing.

@joshcovey9558

9 ай бұрын

@@marsicogodofwar9280 its a major dividing factor at the moment, as a moderate I watch with concern. Im just glad to get info with out a spin

Love your videos man. Keep it up.

Very informative. Thank you.

Cappy really couldn't say 'Russia legally join Nato' with a straight face.

@everettputerbaugh3996

9 ай бұрын

That was a thought -- 30 years ago. Why do you think Germany and the rest of the EU cozzied up to Russian fossil fuel exporters, etc.?

@stoda01

9 ай бұрын

Worst bot ever. Get better AI.

I actually almost took a job at the Ammo plant in Iowa. I was part of a group of 14. There were many other groups of comparable size getting hired in as well. This was summer of 2022. I still believe they're hiring like crazy. There also use to be an ammo plant outside of Joliet, IL. I believe it closed in like 93 or 94

@Shyhalu

9 ай бұрын

You will be ditched and tossed aside like our grandparents when things calm down. Its not an industry that offers stability and the more time you spend in it you spend the opportunity cost of learning a skill that will keep you employed.

@williammiller7799

9 ай бұрын

@@Shyhalu I never took it. I went into a weld shop. Hated it. Went back to warehousing for about a year. Now I'm gonna test my luck with the local Iron Workers

@dakotareid1566

9 ай бұрын

@@Shyhaluthey’re always looking for machinists and you can go anywhere with that skill

@marsicogodofwar9280

9 ай бұрын

I work at the plant in Scranton LOL

@tomhenry897

9 ай бұрын

The IMA reopened? When? Last I heard closed down and the machine’s scraped

Great report!

Enjoyed your video very educational now I can sleep a little easier at night keep up the good work !

Habitual linecrosser got a short joke video summarizing this pretty well

@patherek7914

9 ай бұрын

His shorts are hilarious

@kodakomp

9 ай бұрын

Would you intercept me? I'd intercept me.

@Ghostfury2004

9 ай бұрын

Men of culture I see

@darrenskjoelsvold

9 ай бұрын

Yeah Habitual is very succinct.

That's like when I tell my wife I'm running low on range ammo. I still have tens of thousands of rounds at home for "just in case". I just am low on my "spare" ammo.

@jonstark7106

8 ай бұрын

The FBI wants to know your adress

@NOTSOSLIMJIM

8 ай бұрын

@@jonstark7106 "FBI".... Sure, you mean people who want to take my stash!

@jonstark7106

8 ай бұрын

@@NOTSOSLIMJIM exactly, make good use of that "just in case" ammo

Good job Chris!

Thank you for the very informative commentary on the US Defense Industry. You provided a lot of detailed information that took a lot of time to research and put together in a excellent Narration. It was reassuring to know that the U S and it's Allies have the capacity to produce enough war materials to meet the demands of a Major War if and when it might happen to our own country.

“Back in my day, we fought wars over OIL. LIKE REAL MEN.” 🤘🏻 🇺🇸

@mojewjewjew4420

9 ай бұрын

Like real sheep, tell the orphan children why their dad or/and mother died for a war an ocean away.

@Hybris51129

9 ай бұрын

We wish we fought for oil resources. This time around we aren't even being told a lie on what we are fighting for beyond "Free Ukraine" anyone that asks "What's in it for us?" Gets called a Russian bot and censored.

@sjoerdberkhuijsen8155

9 ай бұрын

@@Hybris51129 honouring the treaty signed so there wouldnt be 10 nuclear powers after the ussr's coulapse... to name one

@enriqueperezarce5485

9 ай бұрын

@@Hybris51129What’s in it for us? Because if we don’t you can bet in the future American blood will be spilled

@chrisbeer5685

9 ай бұрын

​@Hybris51129 What's in it for you is an opportunity to cheaply and effectively weaken Russia that US officials before 2014 only could have wet dreams about.

Cappys average math corner being a marine with crayons had me dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣 love your stuff, brother!

@JohnDoe-vy5hh

9 ай бұрын

Ikr??

Another excellent video. It's a large topic made understandable. For every stockpiled item, there needs to be a warehouse to store it in and (what Russia is weak on) personnel employed to maintain/upgrade those items. Ex: In the 70's military training still included receiving WWII C rations in the field, 30 yo food. So far Ukraine has received hand-me down weapons, in some cases old enough that even Reserve units don't want them. Many of the rocket weapons are near their expiration (or reservice) date... some near their "scrap by" date. This allows the donating countries to spend less on storage/maintenance or replace them with modern versions. An example is cluster shells provided by the US. The military can only use (or export) cluster munitions with a 1% dud bomblet rate, but has a million averaging 2% duds... apparently the ones being sent to Ukraine. The biggest portion of the US's military budget is training and equipment maintenance, so a win for both sides.

@tedmoss

8 ай бұрын

C-rations might last hundreds of years.

Hey great video I needed to understand the ammo situation. But it's funny wat you said about American wars over oil alot of my friends and family fought in those wars

Worked in cnc for about 6 years, sad to say it’s probably the way it will go, a good majority of any metal comes from china that’s from basic steels to alloys, crazy the price difference making it impossible to compete with them.

@Knight_Kin

9 ай бұрын

China's aggressive industrial export subsidies and mercantilism have teeth. It is certainly no coincidence why they produce much larger amounts of steel per year. Just can't compete with companies who can run on negative margins which is recovered through subsidization. Tariffs are an important component but we have too many in power who just really can't help themselves but remove them. Foolish.

@RaveYoda

9 ай бұрын

Capitalism babyyyy- It's not all rainbows and sunshine.

@doujinflip

9 ай бұрын

State-sponsored capitalism. Bring Chinese state subsidies and supports down to the global average level and those prices won't be quite as competitive.

@zyncwargaming179

9 ай бұрын

@@RaveYoda China has capitalism aswell its just a touch diffrent.

@jiminauburn5073

9 ай бұрын

Their steel is known for being sub standard, unless they have recently improved it.

15:40 "Taiwan exports 90% of semiconductors" *shows image of the PRC * he's a little confused but he has spirit

@drumminslife

9 ай бұрын

Came here to mention the same

Love your style man 👍💯💪🤠

Pretty good explanation on Lean manufacturing. However a minor correction, lean manufacturing removes stock piles within the manufacturing process not specifically on the back end or front end. It can certainly reduce the reliance of huge stockpiles as it reduces the time to manufacturing so significantly that it allows for delivery much more efficiently or rather faster. Instead of months to build a batch of product it can be hours or days assuming that a reliable input of components are available.

About the 155 ammo I have a buddy that works for an ASP. He said “for having an ammo shortage it’s sure easy to get 155”

I love the random beep at 15:28.

Fascinating! Not just 155 shells will be short, but EVERYTHING eventually runs out. I work in the oilfields and we talk all the time about how fuel access helps win/lose wars too. I didn't think about that much until now. War just burns through resources like crazy.

Love the OCP logo T-Shirt. Lean Manufacturing is less of the problem, more like lean volume ordering (and planning).

Latter part of the 90’s I instructed shake and bake MOS reclass Infantry school. We had to break out the old clanky worn-out 1911’s because all available 9mm had gone to NATO for Bosnia. The truly amazing part was that the AHA still had .45 in the inventory.

The best presentation of rare earths I’ve heard. Most presentations don’t do their homework. Good work.

Great video. I worked in the Aerospace industry for 7+ years and think that Lean Manufacturing is the least of our (solvable) problems. When Lean Manufacturing is properly executed, it allows for rapid production and scaling of throughput (think Toyota with a popular car). But most people who talk about Lean really focus on working capital efficiency (Inventory) and cost cutting ie don’t do it properly. To my mind, reducing the regulatory burdens (eg allowing subcontractors to use commercial cloud software without breaching ITAR rules) and changing the cost plus billing models could change delivery times and incentives quickly. Love your identification of rare earths also. I saw lead times for some electronics components go from 6 weeks to 60 weeks. If you’re missing a $1 chip on a $10,000 board, that board is delayed. From what I saw, much more work needs to be done to understand the supply chain risks from end to end also. Thanks again, great video.

Great video again. Could you possibly do a video on SOCOMs new dry mini sub?

Impressive level of research behind this video, and very well presented, easy to watch. Good job!

@johnking3724

9 ай бұрын

it's propaganda. It's such a cope. We are living through the USA administration, pushing China and Russia into alliance. This is so bad for the USA. Get ready for bad bad times.

As a Canadian...im surprised,although pleased, that the US military would build an ammo plant in Canada...or did you mean BAE would build a plant here?

@yeshuaislord6880

9 ай бұрын

BAE is British? So that wouldn't be the US military

@sierravortec2494

9 ай бұрын

Yea it’s pretty cool, i wasn’t aware of that.

@kutter_ttl6786

9 ай бұрын

I don't think it's the US building a new plant in Canada, it's more of them expanding existing Canadian plants production of 155mm shells for the US Army. In a recent Bloomberg article (just Google 'US Puts $2 Billion Into Plants Making Ammo Vital to Ukraine') it mentioned that they were investing $68 mil. in Canada to for a new metal parts line for the M795 projectile. All defence ammunition manufacturing in Canada is owned by General Dynamics, so it makes more sense to expand an existing operation instead of building a new factory from scratch.

@dirtdevil70

9 ай бұрын

@yeshuaislord6880 BAE is, or at least was,(not sure with mergers etc) UK based but im sure they have international subsidiaries as well.

@texasabbott

9 ай бұрын

General Dynamics Canada Ordnance and Tactical System ammunition plant is in Repentigny, Quebec. The huge plant with 1,200 people there develop, test and manufacture howitzer, mortar, tank cannon and auto-cannon ammunition, as well as small arms ammunition.

Great job

i work in the Toyota supply chain and the shortcomings of the lean manufacturing system that he’s talking about are present in our systems. it works on ideal conditions and if you face hiccups in your supply or find your demand for your product greater or lesser than your production, you run into either a shortage of parts or a backlog of parts and it’s slower getting everything out the door. in the last three years we’ve come across both, sometimes at the same time.

why is there a random beep at 15:28 scared the crap out of me

Another great video mate! Australia & the US have just signed a deal to make missiles here. Also Australia is expanding its rare earth mining. Finally when I was in the “green machine” I actually got to see the production of shells at the old government arms factory in Melbourne. I could not believe how hands on the production was! That was in the ‘90’s and there was a CAD machine making 40 mm naval rounds but that was the only tech in the place! I asked the guy running it how it worked? (It was the first time I ever saw a robotic machine working & he Said “ I don’t know mate I just push the buttons!”) anyway I thought it was pretty cool! It’s all owned by Thales now. Anyway like I said great video mate!

@peterwebb8732

9 ай бұрын

From what I hear, we have a second modern shell-forging plant in Qld that will come on line shortly. Estimated peak capacity of around 100k 155mm casings per year.

@Ozgrade3

9 ай бұрын

@@peterwebb8732 an article I saw a couple of weeks ago indicated the Qld plant was already producing and shipping shells in low volumes to Ukraine. A video by Peter Zeihan shows us that the USA federak government is funding infrastructure development in Australia to allows us to process the raw materials such as rare earths and aluminium etc into a useable product instead of having that step done in China.

@peterwebb8732

9 ай бұрын

@@Ozgrade3 I’m glad to hear it. I watch Perun’s youtube channel, but couldn’t recall whether he said that the Qld facility was already online or just nearing completion. If you’re not familiar with that channel, I recommend it, and not just for the familiar accent.

@jimash2607

9 ай бұрын

I remember reading that China has been buying all the mines, and shipping material to their country. Is that true?

@Ozgrade3

9 ай бұрын

@@peterwebb8732 Nuclear submarines in the AUKUS deal are just the tip of the iceberg. Uncle Sam is plowing a lot of money into RAAF Tindal airbase in northern Australia to become a B-52 base.

The problem is with the way US companies are using JIT (Just In Time) manufacturing. You need about 25% to 40% of storage to make sure you can survive supply line issues. Though multiyear contracts without sudden cancelation has always been important, like the cut to F22 manufacture! This is true in private industry, too. With rare earths we can also get them from Australia and restart our own. Thanks for highlighting and posting your references and other sources!

@charlesrichardson8635

7 ай бұрын

​@@austin3853 JIT with proper storage in the chain is just fine, but the problem is during the COVID pandemic we found out how little proper chain storage we had. Further for quite a bit, instead of using proper storage facilities companies tied up port storage in shipping containers and jammed up port facilities ... UNTIL the FTA added a fine /day for not picking up your container based on real trucking resources. Suddenly those containers were stored at intermediate drops and merchandise was damaged. JIT is good, but it is not storage free. There are actually good industry based data that specifies how much your industry needs available. Mostly ignored as a way for a CEO to cut costs, stupidly.

@JPK1337

6 ай бұрын

jit is stupid for crictial stuff like ammo

@charlesrichardson8635

6 ай бұрын

@@JPK1337 Yeah, Congress has to make sure defense munitions industries have sufficient funding to have excess capacity and research into better manufacturing. The issue is this is NOT something that private industry can handle. They will be part of it, but the country has to set the numbers and war is always wasteful.

@doujinflip

4 ай бұрын

Storage goes against the tenets of JIT, which try to reduce these to the point that upstream components consistently arrive "just in time" for processing and minimizing the "waste" of warehousing. It's the age-old tradeoff between efficiency and resilience.

@charlesrichardson8635

4 ай бұрын

​@@doujinflip JIT does not obviate all storage as long as humans are involved. You have to have appropriate levels of storage to allow for slack throughout the whole chain. What you don't do is have 2x or 3x required inventory throughout the whole chain and at the end point. Simplistic understanding thinking JIT gets rid of all storage is exactly what caused such backups and failures in systems. in this case Perfection because the enemy of good enough! JIT finds the new BALANCE! That balance varies over time and each industry has different balances. Teddy bear toy factories will have a different balance depending on the time of year but if a low level of storage fails for a bit no harm. This is a bit different in car manufacturing, where if you don't have the right number of part 23, you're screwed, so you store more of those especially if they are dependent on a material that has stops and starts. JIT after storage requirements due to ramp up times is totally different for war-making product! It's a spectrum and it ALWAYS has some storage requirement!!!

How have I lived in iowa my whole life and not know we were a part of the shell artillery ammo making prosses.

Sooo, from 1983-1993 I was senior VP of our families ISO 9000 machine shops. It was 1 of the largest production job shops in our country. We made most of the guidance systems housings. I was brought a federal weapons contract from one of my friends that worked at Teledyne. I was amazed to read in the contract, that 51% of all machined parts HAD to be farmed out to offshore machine shops. And people wonder why we don't have production in this country? It has been legislated away by are own government!!!!!

@matthewgaines10

9 ай бұрын

Don’t believe that for a second. I actually have seen defense contracts for myself have worked them and there is actually a domestically sourced bias. Only when there is a capability the US doesn’t have does a foreign source have priority. DFARS and FARS clauses are codified into US law and are not subject to an overactive imagination. ITAR often restricts technical data to be shared with foreign nationals. They are all available for anyone to read. Those restrictions existed then. They exist now. Since you claim to have read the contract, you should be able to tell us all what kind of contract it was.

@RobertCunningham-cw4bv

9 ай бұрын

Wow. That's sad man.

@albertslyx3149

9 ай бұрын

That’s why Capi said that because we produce in all different countries but each part made in his best posible way and best factory mades our guns so good. I also think that right now supply chains are really connected to the level of even raw materials and countries right now prefer to put sactions on potatoes than wage war 😂

@kevinroberts781

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely correct. This country depends on everyone except it's on people. Disaster waiting to happen.

@mitchellpolinop7650

8 ай бұрын

Waaaaahhhh what a baby lol

Your recent content is downright impressive.

Tkans for you info that you are putting out there, dont you think others know this.

There is a similar problem with Navy ships, and merchant marine ships. In WWII we had shipyards building ships. Now very few. Also China, South Korea, and Japan are building 90 percent of merchant ships. Ours have been neglected and are out of date.

@doujinflip

4 ай бұрын

Probably because we decided to airlift everything instead over the decades, and had uninterrupted time to boat in as needed in-theatre prepositioned stockpiles.

AIRSPEED/LEAN has been practiced in the military for a very long time. Supply and distribution is what the US military does best.

@Commodore22345

9 ай бұрын

That doctrine has never been tested against a real enemy before though. Sure, it works when fighting against dirt farmers and goat herders in the Middle East, but how is this doctrine going to hold up in a protracted state-on-state conventional war?

Impressively informative.

You’re great educator.

This is nothing compared to what we can do during actual war times. This is only a casual replenishing effort, of which, doesn't even matter due to new rounds being developed.

@josephdantes1605

9 ай бұрын

not really. supply chain bottlenecks are very real. It is nice to see the US address some of these issues now during your so called "casual replenishing effort". This isn't WWII where everything is 100% made in the USA. And even then, it took a few years to scale up the production to become the "arsenal of democracy"

@pedronabais1456

9 ай бұрын

@@josephdantes1605 well bc in ww2 the equipment destroyed in a single day takes like 60 days to be destroyed in this war

@distainedrogue536

9 ай бұрын

@@josephdantes1605 You make the point that is hard to disprove. However, it still goes both ways. We don't need the old ammo, but it is nice to have cheaper variants. So we're not just producing Excalibur round sand only Excalibur rounds ect of course. However, we could easily start making everything in the USA again. You seem to think that's a far-fetched reality or something lol FYI, I'm well aware of NATO and what that implies. I'm for Ukraine, I understand Geopolitics. And i understand the geopolitics of the situation my demands require.

@Shyhalu

9 ай бұрын

You should watch all those California videos on on their delivery trains - people robbing them left and right, tons of goods not delivered. NY isn't any better. You're talking about an ideal world with an ideal economy and social cohesion. We have people literally walking into grocery stores and stealing food, you can find videos of things like ice cream locked behind glass. These looters figure out trains have military grade equipment on them and they will target them like flies on shit.

@SelfProclaimedEmperor

9 ай бұрын

@@josephdantes1605 Not everything is made in the USA these days. But most weapons are. We have the majority of the worlds weapons manufacturing.

I was stationed in Germany during the draw down. In the early 90s. You have no clue to the amount of 155 the ammo unit I was in shipped back. And I was on 1 ammo dump, they cleaned out 3 different ammo dumps.

@BillyBOB-sm3rl

9 ай бұрын

And more if not all the ammo. That was issued in the Gilf war was from Germany.

Well done

America: Hi China we need 100 billion artillery shells China: what for !?

@xthee_0nly_1x11

9 ай бұрын

Artirrery

@pike100

9 ай бұрын

​@@xthee_0nly_1x11That is racist, and it's in bad taste. From a white male in Texas.

“One person’s efficiency is another persons vulnerability” Also applies to Stockton Rush.

Mehn.... U r just awesome with your presentation... Keep it up

Why wasn't McAlester, Oklahoma mentioned? They're a huge ammo depot for the military.

In lean manufacturing, 'stock' is considered just as much a waste as scrapped/rejected parts. 'The lean looking wolf in the pack may be the fastest and most efficient killer, but when the food supply runs out, the lean wolf will be the first to perish'

@BaalAdvocate

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. I'm amazed that all the interruption that covid caused failed to wake people up to the fragility of JIT and lean.

@Debbiebabe69

9 ай бұрын

@@BaalAdvocate I always remember one from the British Army in Afghanistan when they were using JIT supply chains.... The plane carrying the soldiers body armour arrived in Kandahar 'Just In Time' to be able to take the coffin carrying a soldier who should have been wearing it back to England.

@yoyojoseph

9 ай бұрын

No it is not, Lean allows for stock. It's only against hoarding.

@Debbiebabe69

9 ай бұрын

@@yoyojoseph it allows for stock to cover things like kanbans, true, but contingency is classed as waste, even if it has a 100% chance of sale (barring acts of God)

Thanks for talking about the flaws of lean manufacturing. Ive work in industrial manufacturing for 15 years and people only talk about the positives, and only plan for every variable to be perfect and that thought process should have collapse in late 2019.

@DonChartier

9 ай бұрын

Lean manufacturing isn't responsible for government decisions to keep inadequate inventories or limited manufacturing capacity.

@Comm0ut

9 ай бұрын

Lean is horrible for stocking parts in the armed forces. Whoever thought bringing lean to the Air Force should get demining duty in Ukraine...naked with a sledge hammer. Wars are fought from stocks on hand and require serious front loading.

@Nealetony

9 ай бұрын

@DonChartier i work in the civil market, and it's quite horrible if everything isn't going perfectly. It's literally designed to maximize efficiency if only everything is working perfectly. Guess what the real world isn't perfect, the supply chain isn't perfect, and the current status quo is fragile af.

@DonChartier

9 ай бұрын

Keeping insufficient finished goods or spare parts isn't "Lean Manufacturing."

@DonChartier

9 ай бұрын

@@Nealetony Your company is doing it wrong. You don't *assume* perfection, you work hard to create the conditions (high equipment availability, precision machining, low setup times, supply reliability) so that you can run lean. Lots of companies have made the mistake of chopping inventories and calling it "lean." It's not.

We used to fire rounds from 1960s during training in Korea in 2008. They where so old we weren't allowed to return them to the depot. If anything went wrong they would extend our field time to expend the ammo. Was also the last time we didn't use the Lima powder charge

Very good Cappy

Its worth noting that, while the supply chain issues are certainly a concern that the US Military needs to keep aware of… in a real big shooting war directly involving the USA, if a shortage of Stinger, Javelin, and Artillery Shells actually start to matter, something has gone terribly wrong. Those systems are basically a back-up for the unlikely situation where the USA can’t rely upon the world’s largest Air Force to maintain Air Superiority (the US Air Force). Or the world’s second largest Air Force, the US Navy. …I’m not sure where the US Army’s air force is ranked, but its probably pretty high. Either way, the reason why these weapons are so critical for Ukraine is the airspace is so contested, and Ukraine doesn’t have the capability to gain air superiority over Russia. If China were to spark a shooting war with the USA, the lack of reserves of those weapons systems would not be a primary concern, because of how many things would have to go wrong first before they’d become relevant. Its important to view this concern as a warning sign for potential issues down the road. Its not an imminent threat, but it is a problem…

@roadent217

9 ай бұрын

"…I’m not sure where the US Army’s air force is ranked" Probably behind the US Marine Corps' air force.

@dc4334

8 ай бұрын

Actually, the US Army has the second larges Air Force by numbers. We have over 14,000 aircraft. US Navy obviously has jets, and is considered “more powerful”. But people seem to forget we have a ton of transport aircraft, and the largest helicopter fleet on the planet.

An honest assessment of the US' ability to prevent Russian tanks from overrunning Europe would take into account the reduced number of tanks and shells available to Russia compared to two years ago. This is not to say that Russia would never rebuild these tanks, but it would give us years to worry about something else.

@StylesEste

9 ай бұрын

Well, happily, Russia can't actually rebuild the tanks they've lost yet. They'd have to be resupplied with our parts (Russia is completely dependent on Western parts. A vulnerability that they themselves admitted.) ;) So while they could likely rebuild old model tanks that don't use those parts, and try and find ways and the expertise to manufacture them (oops.. All their smart people tend to flee from drafts and mandates.) But say in 10 years, a new leader, and a new domestic homefront plan, Russia could 'potentially' solve the issues that the Russo-Ukraine and Russo-Georgian wars have taught them. But since it's Russia.. I don't have my hopes high that they'll break out of their corruption schemes. :/ Kind of a permanent issue at this point. They'd have to completely restructure their entire society to break out of that, first, before they could tackle theoretical wartime problems.

@shadow7988

9 ай бұрын

@@StylesEste lmao holy copium. Lemme guess, a 'NAFO fella'?

@StylesEste

9 ай бұрын

@@shadow7988 Lithuanian, someone who knows what Russians actual capabilities are. I take it you're just American though.

@StylesEste

9 ай бұрын

@@mitchellcouchman6589 Utterly hilarious. Spoken like a man who has no understanding of the Russian system. Also, those T-90M's you claim they're building. Dependent on Western parts. And Russia (Moscow) does not have the capability to manufacture those parts. They themselves admitted this. They also only ever had 1,000 T-90M's. But, okay bud. ;) "more tanks than Europe!"

@StylesEste

9 ай бұрын

@@mitchellcouchman6589 TL;DR you proved my point. ;) How many T-90 tanks does Russia possess? Since 1992, around 1,000 T-90s with various variants have been manufactured. In 2022, Russia owned approximately 350 T-90As, up to 100 T-90Ms, and an additional 200 T-90s in storage. The military said in 2018 that all T-90s would be upgraded to T-90Ms by 2025. ^India Times. "They're still building" Not without the ball bearings that they don't have. Yes, China can begin supplying Russia with spare parts and ball bearings. Unfortunately for China, however, there are sanctions against them over it. And with the evidence of Chinese components being found in Russian equipment, they'll inevitably face more sanctions against them specifically. The politics part of that tends to take time. But again, ;) You already proved my point, Russia does not have the components, and they can't manufacture them. They're forced to replace their loses and lost capabilities with foreign parts. Something you're not understanding. Russia *cant* produce them because they can't get the components from the West; Which Russia has admitted to. They can't make them without a different supply. And China faces ramping up sanctions against them with continued support to Russia. The EU may move slow, bud, but it does move. And clearly it's moved against Russia.

As the "supply chain" becomes more global any disruption in any major industry or major company is going to have a major impact not only on the military but also on consumer goods. The world is becoming very small. Excellent presentation.

Thank you for looking into this aspect of military logistics that for most people, is unglamorous. However, good logistics is a key to winning wars. Many in military logistics go unrecognized.

Wait, you're telling me that purposeful short-sightedness in the name of profit has a potential to cause fundamental problems in the very security intended to protect that purposeful short-sightedness?

Shell shortages have repeated every time there is a large war. It was the same in WW1 and WW2 and in both cases it took 3-4 years to get the production in full swing. It takes time to build the factories needed for industrial scale production. At the moment many countries are ramping up production especially in Europe where the threat is closer than in USA. Around late 2024 or early 2025 the supply should reach what Ukraine is able to use making barrels and spare parts the next bottleneck on the firepower on frontlines.

@Kevin-bl6lg

9 ай бұрын

Agree. And 2026 to 2040 Ukraine will constantly have an edge over Russia. After 2040 isn't calculated for yet. Any assumptions available?

@tylee8055

9 ай бұрын

I just farted bro ...

@SpringIsBACK

7 ай бұрын

In 2024, NATO and its allies 155 mm shell capacity should easily reach 1/2 of what Russia claims it will produce. However, the NATO / Allies shells taken overall have a considerable advantage in accuracy, and in "shoot and scoot" systems. The EFFECTIVE advantage will turn to Ukraine sometime in 2024.

The Rock Island Arsenal is in Illinois actually. Rock Island, Moline, Davenport and Bettendorf aren't particularly "rural" either.

7:36 - "the most effective and reliable" effective yes but since production is depended on outside entities it hardly makes it reliable

It’s crazy that all these locations are simply public information. In a serious situation this is gonna bite us in the ass

@Springfield1795

9 ай бұрын

Enemies can find out about highly classified sites too

@doujinflip

9 ай бұрын

It's also deterrence, both for adversaries and for corruption.