Cold_Refrigerator_69 t1_jd1zqox wrote on March 21, 2023 at 7:04 AM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in EU agrees to send Ukraine one million artillery shells by FuckYouReddiit

How many does the EU actually have on hand that isn't their critical supply

Turmfalke_ t1_jd2a2ms wrote on March 21, 2023 at 9:39 AM

Not many, but more importantly we don't have much production capacity, which is the real bottleneck. A major war fought with artillery was deemed unlikely.

carpcrucible t1_jd27755 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 8:56 AM

Not many, but we

don't need them if Ukraine uses them to fuck russia up
could've started the procurement immediately and not waited a year

HappyAmbition706 t1_jd34xbd wrote on March 21, 2023 at 2:33 PM

To be fair, not too many could predict that Ukraine would still be there 2 weeks in. And Afghanistan was fresh in mind, or South Vietnam.

Production at the rates that Ukraine uses, needs and will need when they go back on offence isn't something that can be kept up during peacetime, nor maintaining the unused capacity to do it when there is not such war or buyers.

VastFair8982 t1_jd4x0nt wrote on March 21, 2023 at 9:21 PM

2 weeks in? They could have done it 6 fucking months into this thing and this wouldn’t be a problem.

PrrrromotionGiven1 t1_jd2guzx wrote on March 21, 2023 at 11:08 AM

The only countries that even need a critical supply are the ones bordering Russia

And I guess France probably will insist on reserving some in case of tomfoolery in Africa