He us army announced Tuesday that awarded $522 million in orders to two companies to make 155mm artillery ammunition for Ukraine.
The orders, officially decided on January 30, were for the Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. and Global Military Products Inc. and came amid concerns that Ukraine was rapidly running out of US artillery shell ammunition and other allies.
Deliveries of the new munitions are scheduled to begin in March this year, the army said in a statement.
NATO mobilizes to maintain the delivery of arms and ammunition to Ukraine
The contract is financed by the Ukrainian Security Assistance Initiativefrom the Pentagon.
Ukraine and Russia have fired huge amounts of artillery rounds at each other since the Russian invasion began. almost a year ago. In November, a US official said that Russian forces were firing about 20,000 artillery shells a day.
Ukraine’s range was between 4,000 and 7,000 rounds of shells per day, faster than the rate at which its allied Western manufacturers can produce them. Those ranges have since fallen, as winter settled in and both sides faced shortages and conserving ammunition.
“The war in Ukraine is consuming a huge amount of munitions, and depleting allied reserves,” NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Monday. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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