The article title makes it sound like they found them in a couch cushion. TL;DR The Greeks offered to sell the US 5k rounds to pass on to Ukraine.
Also the article is dated Dec 1st, quoting a Greek source article dated Nov 28th. Nearly 2 weeks old reporting.
Honestly, given how the US military loses stuff all the time, I’m surprised that wasn’t the case.
wouldn’t be surprised if they did though
Well, the US Army lost nuclear bombs before, so artillery shells being randomly found in a warehouse someday wouldn’t be surprising.
Interesting, one would think Greeks are likely to suddenly need ammunition too, with that stain to the east of them.
Bruh. They both bicker but when earthquakes happen, they help each other. I find the loudest “Greek nationalists” tend to be Americans and Russian Medieval Total War gamers LARPing at being the Eastern Romans
Well, I have varying experiences. I don’t think many people with Pontic ancestry would agree with you.
It’s also easier to be friendly to Turks when your military is not that shitty, which naturally reduces the likeliness of war.
It’s unlikely that anything will happen these days between Turkey and Greece.
Less likely that what is happening now between Russia and Ukraine was in 2012, surely.
Both Greece and Turkey are still democracies (despite the latter being very flawed) and both are part of NATO. Erdoğan is also smarter than Putin who loves to play both the West and its rivals. .
“Haha hey guys we just forgot about all these artillery shells in the basement”
You’d be surprised.
We had a little dig between the couch cushions, and look what we came up with!
47 million deal for 75k total shells
$626 a shell? Really??
A single Javelin anti-tank missile costs around 250k. Weapons are expensive, more so when companies owned by congressmen’s buddies want to make enormous profits.
The M795 projectile is about $500, so that sounds about right. Just the “dumb” shells are fairly cheap. Once you start adding guidance and specialized fuses, the price starts to get cranked up. I don’t know too much about artillery though, but the powder charges should be fairly cheap as well.
I would have to start digging to find what the real prices are, but it’s probably still in the ballpark. The real cost is in the equipment.
Seems like they were sold rather cheap there.
https://www.technology.org/2023/01/05/how-much-do-155-mm-artillery-rounds-cost-now-and-how-many-are-fired-in-ukraine/ quotes prices like $2000-$3500 per shell.
Ukraine will be giving them to Russia for free. With express delivery too.
Costs a lot to kill
It’s a fucking disgrace that the Eurozone isn’t putting that many shells out per day from its factories. 10 factories should make such an amount easily.
I don’t think anyone anywhere manufactures 203mm shells anymore, so the factories would have to be retooled for the sole purpose of supplying Ukraine.
Maybe they can find some housing or student loan forgiveness next.
Fuck this shit.
sorry supreme court said no so only thing we can do is bomb
It’s definitely weird to see comments almost filled with GLEE under articles like this.
Is this image real? Are those guys so badass that they just chit chat while this massive munition explodes behind them? Are they so desensitized?
I’d probably defecate a little bit everytime that gun went off…
Month 1 of the mortar alarms going off you go to the nearest shelter and sit until the all clear.
Month 3 you go to your room first, or if already there you take your time getting some snacks and a cell phone or gameboy to pass the time.
Month 5 you don’t even bother leaving your room unless your unit is known to have someone check trailer to trailer.
Month 7 you get so fed up with the mortar alarm that you go AWOL just to hunt down and slaughter the prick whos launching them.
Month 9 you are now the mortar guy.
We still have our own stockpile right? It’s not like we’re giving them but losing ours, right?
Why, exactly, do you think the US would require a stockpile of 203mm shells? The M110 was retired from service decades ago.
I dunno about ammo for artillery dude lol I’m just asking
Your Colonel would be disappointed, Private.
I had no colonel
You really don’t need to be worried about the US running out of munitions, if there’s one thing the USA does well, it’s pumping out obscene amounts of weapons
I was just wondering if we sell what we already have, or have more made, or our old stuff.
