Thread: No more powder

Originally Posted by No.3

They will probably be soaking up all plant capacity making the ball powder grades for .50, 20mm and 30mm cartridges. Consumption of those caliber components must be out through the roof in the EU and other places making ammo, the Russians must have damn near consumed all of their fresh stocks of shells by now and be working on the older Soviet-era fodder. By all accounts the Russian stock of artillery tubes is due to be expended by the end of the year - that's an interesting sideline proposition as what do they replace all of their heavy weaponry with after they've used it all uselessly pounding the Donbas region for no really positive results?

Propellant supplies for the heavier caliber weapons will be chewing through raw material production as well which won't be helping the downstream supplies of civilian powders.

It makes you wonder if the Russians actually had a clear plan and objectives in starting the war in Ukraine. Perhaps the believed their own propaganda over the oppressed Ukrainians wanting a return to their earlier rulers. If they were expecting to be greeted as liberators they were largely mistaken. All the liberators recieved were graves, often unmarked. A very sad event for all concerned which just reinforced that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Grandpamac.