- The US Army has cancelled a long-range artillery prototype because barrels were wearing out too quickly;
- The US seeks to evaluate existing Western artillery systems to extend the range of American artillery systems;
- This is done supposedly after learning lessons from the ongoing fighting in Ukraine;
- The real problem is the collective West's inability to mass produce weapons and ammunition;
- Longer-range systems may not make them more effective on modern battlefields where counter-battery operations is conducted using long-range drones;
- Russia and China are no longer lagging in terms of military capabilities or the technology associated with them, the determining factor is quantity;
- America's for-profit arms industry prefers small numbers of expensive weapons over large quantities of simple but effective systems, creating these shortcomings in Western artillery systems;
References:
Defenses News - US Army scraps Extended Range Cannon Artillery prototype effort (March 12, 2024):
Defense News - US Army readies new artillery strategy spurred by war in Ukraine (August 2023):
CNN - Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine (March 11, 2024):
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