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units in month. The problem is that when they name the number of shells that the USA and Europe will produce, they are talking about shells of the same caliber, the main one being 155 mm. And when they say that Russia will produce 4.5mn of its shells, they count all artillery shells, that is, the main 152 mm, and some kind of 122 mm rocket, and all the other shells too.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Russians are already using more than 3,000 guided aerial bombs per month to attack Ukraine, and this figure is constantly growing. The Ukrainian defence forces also use guided aerial bombs, but compared to Russia, they use a much smaller amount of ammunition provided by Western partners. However, the situation may change in the near future. Brigadier General Serhii Holubtsov, chief of aircraft of the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said on 9 June that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin testing guided bombs of Ukrainian production in a few weeks.
Russia may store 100 nuclear warheads in Kaliningrad Oblast, Polish FM claims. Russia might be storing up to 100 nuclear warheads in Kaliningrad Oblast, located approximately 260 km (160 miles) from Warsaw, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski claimed on June 11, during the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin.
Russia, Belarus begin second stage of tactical nuclear weapons drills. The latest drills will see Russian and Belarusian forces working on training "for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons", the Russian Defense Ministry said on June 11.
Russia uses submarines to patrol Black Sea after naval losses, military says. Russia started using submarines to patrol the Black Sea after a number of ships were attacked by Ukraine, Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesperson for the Southern Defense Forces, said on national television on June 10.
America’s war machine can’t make basic artillery fast enough.
The Pentagon focused on high-tech weapons after the Soviet Union fell, but the invasion of Ukraine has set off a race to revive output of time-tested munitions.
Russia produces 200-300% more shells than the West combined, and for 75% less. Russia has increased its military production faster than NATO expected, and the countries of the Alliance have taken longer to increase their production than they should have, as stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The Russian Federation is currently capable of producing several million shells per year. On the other hand, the problems facing the Western military-industrial complex are related to post-Cold War reductions among NATO countries, but the situation is changing. Alliance members are ramping up their munitions production capacity and increasing supplies sent to Ukraine. The US has already doubled production of its 155 mm shells and will soon
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