It really makes one laugh to read about how Europe is waking up to its actual military defense requirements and eagerly rushing to produce a million arrows a year in the face of rising demand for machine gun ammo. I see that after years of poking and prodding German industry is scaling up its 155mm artillery ammunition production to meet a requirement that was vaporized by drones over the last 2 years. Man, if you thought artillery counterbattery fires was a real thing (and I do) then you would have to laugh to see Rheinmetall crow about turning out even more 155mm shells than even all of the United States.
Why would we be laughing? Well, how many actual 155mm artillery guns are left in all of NATO not counting the United States? The days when I could glance at the entire Order of Battle of any NATO or Warsaw Pact member are in the long ago past but I dare say that all of NATO less Poland have fewer then 150 working artillery pieces and the number left in Ukraine can be counted on the fingers of both hands. Nobody likes incoming and they make a real effort to kill the redlegs when they can and using drones to bring down a rain of fire on artillery positions is probably something that makes every infantryman smile as he falls asleep at night.
Once again we see people gearing up with the wrong stuff to fight a war that no longer exists in the modern world and which was crippled to death by lawyers in the 3rd world fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The days of cannon as the Ultima Ratio Regum have gone, never to return. It would have been far better if Rheinmetall had built a magnificent 25 man portable factory for making a thousand fiber optic drones a day and then set up 25 of them around the country to produce a damned near infinite number of drones. They'd have also done better to set up factories like that to produce autonomous drone killers.
Of course, they build what they are paid to build and nobody in European NATO is thinking clearly now and by the evidence, haven't been since Ronald Reagan was King.
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