Denmark is sending its “entire artillery” to Ukraine, the Danish prime minister has said.
“They are asking us for ammunition now. Artillery now. From the Danish side, we decided to donate our entire artillery,” she said.
Denmark is sending its “entire artillery” to Ukraine, the Danish prime minister has said.
“They are asking us for ammunition now. Artillery now. From the Danish side, we decided to donate our entire artillery,” she said.
The article mentions that Denmark and Czech republic can send 1.6 million artillery shells “if the funding is found”. Assuming somehow that all these shells actually make it, how significant of a development is it? Russia is currently firing 10k shells per day, so with this delivery, Ukraine could match Russian artillery for 160 days. Would they even have the manpower to launch artillery at that scale?
I’d wonder where they would even be able to procure that many shells from tbh.
And if they exist why they haven’t already been bought.
This is a significant number, the US delivered 2 million shells in the first year and a half of the proxy war.
1.6 million would be about a year and a half’s worth of US based production, but only once they hit a rate of 80,000 shells per month by late 2024. At 2023 production rates of 25,000 shells per month that delivery would take over five years. With Russian production at 300,000 per month minimum (based on your statement of Russian forces firing 10k per day), that’s a lot of work the west has got to do to even catch up.
I have to assume US arms production, as poor as it is, outperforms European production by a significant margin, so the 1.5-5 year time frame for US sourced shells could easily be doubled for EU sourced ones, or they just dig even further into the stockpiles.
Even if they could match them fire for fire, what’s the point when they don’t have the troops to make a breakthrough? What do you do at that point, just spend 160 more days delaying the inevitable?
…Actually now that I think of it, is it an election year in Denmark or something?
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