The 155mm round is the most requested artillery munition by Ukraine for their war against Russia. And now Israel needs it as well for its war against Hamas in Gaza. 155mm rounds are mainly used in Western howitzer systems and became popular because of their balance between range and warhead size.
WSJ explains if the U.S. and other global arms suppliers can cope with the demand for this NATO-standard caliber artillery shell.
0:00 Key shell for Ukraine and Israel
0:48 155mm shell, explained
2:40 Artillery war
4:16 Production issues
5:32 Israel deliveries
6:19 What’s next?
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How many has been smuggled to Africa by weapon dealers ! I heard a lot has been missing
Indian RAM JET made by IIT -M can go upto 78km I think it can be improved further
The Russians and Chinese also make 155mm artillery shells. I heard the Russia's stockpile about 15-20 million 155mm shells. See if you can buy some shells from those countries.
imagine if all this human creativity was used for something that didnt blow people up?
Russia has defeated Ukraine & its supporters US , european countries & NATO # at least around 500 thousand Ukrainian military fighters have been killed for the last 1 & half years # 🇵🇰
I find it disingenuous to not list EU numbers as well. Because while the analyst talks about "difficulties" EU+GB has still increased its production from 230,000 shells per year to over 600,000 shells per year in November (ie, at least 50,000 shells during November 2023), and will hit 1 million shells per year this autumn. The difficulties was that they were hoping to hit 1 million shells before April, but that's not going to happen.
EDA (EUs department for Defence collaboration) has also worked out agreements over the last year for some absolutely massive orders of 155mm. So "failure to order" isn't exactly true either.
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The decision to increase copacity of production was rejected by White House. Companies need obligation from goverment to buy stockpile for next five years, if they to increase production. It was done, even all military and industry experts said it was needed at least 6 month in war.
155 mm Because maybe its a real killer 😢
A couple of factors contributing: a) Ukraine early on was using old Soviet/Russian artillery doctrine, where accuracy was compromised for area saturation. While that's is one aspect of artillery usage, it's not the only factor hence the high consumption-rate. Currently Ukraine forces are much better trained, the use of forward observers to call in artillery is more wide-spread hence their accuracy has greatly increased as has their lethality. b) Western powers supplying Ukraine hadn't been in any prolonged conflicts where artillery usage was a major factor. While previous conflicts have utlitzed artillery for battlefield prep or, surgical strikes, the prolonged war with daily fire missions has been a wake-up call for governments reviewing their budgets and stockpiles…TLDR- governments need to take to their militaries about what is really needed
Only now? This is a major staple of South Korea's military. (South Korea is is currently supplying the US.)
Other than the USA factories. How many 155mm shells per month can the rest of the nato nations produce?
And people are angry that Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine. I understand why the average Western citizen should be angry that arms companies will stop making billions off the back of Russian and Ukrainian citizens (end of sarcasm).
Why are these made out of steel? There are other materials we could use and make many more.
The point is that the military-industrial complex will make a lot of money from the Ukraine-Gaza war
The US Army created and employs the M114 towed howitzer. Known as the 155 mm Howitzer M1, it was initially manufactured in 1942 as a medium artillery piece. Prior to being replaced by the M198 howitzer, it served with the US Army in the Korean, Vietnam, and World Wars II.
Both South Korea and North Korea have large artillery shells production capacity and massive stockpile of shells. South Korea sent 300k NATO shells to USA and North Korea, 1 million shells to Russia (equivalent 152 mm shells) Now South Korea become artillery shell supplier of NATO.
USA please continue to produce more weapons because world War three is around the corner and i dont want Russia, China and Iran to win. Good will always win against the evil. Either do i want China and Russia to decide what happens in this world that christ Jesus gave to us.
Ukraine needs so many shells because biden wont give Ua the weapons it needs to have air superiority. few at wsj were ever in military so they are clueless.
Great video.
She Sells 155mm Shells on the Sea Shore
I can send a catapult
This military industrial complex propaganda is gross
So nationalize the critical and vital ammunition industry if it doesnt work in private hands. Seems obvious.