It made perfect sense at the time but times have changed. But it squeezed out a lot of capacity."Äozens of defense contractors collapsed post the Cold War, shedding about a third of U.S. "So, industry listened and consolidated, and as a result was able to weather the transition to a post-Cold War environment. "He (Perry) told them that there was not going to be enough business to keep them all going, that they would need to consolidate," Cancian recounts. bought 100,000 shells from South Korea last year. 500,000 shells in an agreement that appears tailored to ease the shortage without directly contributing to the Ukrainian war effort. South Korea has reportedly agreed to "lend" the U.S. military is digging into its global stockpile and foraging for 155-milimeater shells from among its allies, according to Cancian. The Pentagon has launched an urgent effort to speed up munitions production, but that presents another danger: price gouging. Cancian says NATO forces could run out some kinds of ammunition if there's a war with China or some other major power. So, Russia's invasion of Ukraine highlights a threat to the United States. was producing fewer than 13,000 of them a month and that's increased to about 20,000 now, he says. Cancian says the United States has sent more than 1 million of those artillery rounds to Ukraine. That's in addition to all the Soviet-standard munitions Ukraine forces burn through.
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