Washington’s announcement comes as concerns are raised about the depletion of stockpiles of weapons and ammunition by Western countries, especially the US, which for a year has multiplied deliveries of material from its military stockpiles to the Ukrainian army to counter the Russian invasion. .
The US government announced on Tuesday that it had awarded contracts worth more than half a billion dollars to produce 155mm shells for Ukraine’s artillery.
The orders, awarded in late January to Northrop Grumman and Global Military Products by the US Pentagon, are worth $552 million. The first deliveries are expected in March.
Washington’s announcement comes as concerns are raised about the depletion of stockpiles of weapons and ammunition by Western countries, especially the US, which for a year has multiplied deliveries of material from its military stockpiles to the Ukrainian army to counter the Russian invasion. .
The orders announced yesterday take another direction: ammunition for Ukraine will be produced directly for it, with American funding.
In eastern Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian artillery fire thousands of shells each day — as many as 20,000 may be fired every 24 hours by the Russians, a US official estimated in November.
Yesterday Monday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned that Ukraine is using more ammunition than the alliance as a whole can produce. “This depletes our reserves and puts our defense industries under pressure,” the Norwegian said.
Source :Skai
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