Inside the US Factory Making Ukraine’s Most Important Ammo | Big Business | Insider Business
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Published 2023-08-06
0:00 Intro
0:52 Why 155s are so important in Ukraine
2:40 How 155mm shells are made
4:20 History of 155mm shells
4:53 Other expensive weapons NATO has sent Ukraine
5:51 How America is sending cluster bombs during shortage
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Inside the US Factory Making Ukraine’s Most Important Ammo | Big Business | Insider Business
All Comments (21)
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US artillery shell production is still technically at ‘peacetime’ levels. At wartime level, many industries can be mobilized to ramp up production
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The U.S. has several "stockpiles", the contents of which are classified. What is happening, is that the new shells are not going to Ukraine, but into the U.S. stockpiles, while older shells are being sent to Ukraine. Many of the shells they received, were to have been disposed of in the first place.
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I worked in an ammunition plant during the Vietnam war and it was balls to the wall 24/7! 105 mm howitzers. Paid my tuition to college for a year.😄🔥💥
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I worked on and installed some of those robots a long time ago. This is an old factory. Glad to see they're still running.
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I just love the guy who yelled, "EFFICIENCY IS KEY TO SPEED." Then immediately cuts to next scene.
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Scranton is seriouslly the place to Make Paper (Dunder Mifflin) and artillery rounds.
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"There is a global shortage of artillery shells" Never in my life I heard a sentence that was this fucked up. I mean isn't it shocking that there can be a shortage of weapons? What a world.
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American manufacturing besides German and sweedes is unmatched when we're talking steel god bless
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I've handled 155mm rounds in the Tawianese military, it's fascinating to see how these are made in the factory.
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The core of the issue is that U.S. production was tailored to address U.S. requirements, and U.S. requimemts tend to be centered around guided weapons delivered by air power. Tube artillery is more of a situational tool in U.S. doctrine, and U.S. commanders don't expect to engage in multi-month grinding artilery duals that require more rounds than our (previously) very deep stockpiles.
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This is definitely the right business to be in
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My first unit was an artillery unit. We had the M198 155m Howitzers. 1/321 FA, the only 155m artillery airborne unit in the US Army. Nothing like seeing and hearing one of those rounds explode in a direct fire! You can see these rounds leaving the tube if you watch closely enough.
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When I went to the army in 2003, we were shooting ammo lots from the 1950s. the charge bags would fall apart because they were so old. it wasn't until 2011 in Afghanistan that I saw ammo lots that were made within a year.
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We are not running out of shells. We are replacing old ones with newer ones. Even when in storage, it will create more duds and misfires over time. Which isn’t something you want. It’s actually pretty smart.
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as long as war is business it will never end
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I am from Zaporozhie, a Ukrainian city in 100 km from the frontline. My house located is quite low and it is quiet, but every time when I walk up to the hill near river Dnepr I hear cannonade.
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The fact South Korea produces over 300,000 155mm shells per month is mind boggling 😮
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Money to be made. US military industrial complex
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This video is the perfect proof of who wants wars, for whom wars suit and who profits from them.
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I think the critics are over hyping in the shortage. If a war time level just as WW II, we would ramp up production dramatically.
