If this was already posted, someone have staff nuke me (pun kind of intended).
US scrambles to increase weapons production after Biden let military info slip on TV | Fox News
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Kirby was responding to a segment reporting that a Center for Strategic and International Studies report found replacing inventories for ammunitions such as 155 mm shells could take between four and seven years. Replacing Javelins could take up to eight years and Stingers up to as many as 18 years, according to the report.
Kirby said replacing the munitions, as the war in Ukraine continues and tensions rise in Taiwan, is not a matter of funding.
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Kirby's comments come after President Biden said on TV that the United States is low on 155 mm artillery rounds.
"This is a war relating to munitions. And they're running out of that ammunition, and we're low on it," Biden told CNN's Fareed Zakaria last Sunday. "And so, what I finally did, I took the recommendation of the Defense Department to not permanently but to allow for this transition period while we get more 155 weapons, these shells, for the Ukrainians."
US scrambles to increase weapons production after Biden let military info slip on TV | Fox News