Saturday, October 7, 2023

Top generals warn that allies — Canada included — are running dangerously low on artillery shells

"NATO official and Canada's top military commander have both warned allies within the past
week that their ammunition shortages have reached a crisis state and are calling for urgent action to boost production of critical artillery rounds.

Gen. Wayne Eyre, chief of the defense staff, recently told a House of Commons committee that if Canadian troops were called upon to fire their big guns at the same rate as Ukrainian troops fighting to repel the Russian invasion, their supply of shells would last for only a few days.
At the Warsaw Security Forum this week, Admiral Rob Bauer, the head of NATO's military council, warned that "the bottom of the barrel is now visible" in terms of how much ammunition the alliance has available to transfer to Ukraine." cbc.ca

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