US Shell Factory Exposed: Why US For-Profit Industry Can't Compete with Russian/Chinese Production
The US had set the target of manufacturing 100,000 155mm artillery shells every month by the end of 2025.Instead, it has failed to reach even half this target.
This is in part due to an entire General Dynamics factory that failed to make a single usable shell component in 2 years and after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.
Far from just an issue with artillery shells, US military industrial production is being held back by systemic flaws rooted in the for-profit nature of the US government and economy itself - siphoning off billions (if not trillions) of tax dollars and not only returning nothing of value for the American public - but diverting funding abroad on wars of aggression at the expense of funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure at home.
This reveals US for-profit industry as the very threat in reality to the American people, industry and the politicians they own, claim Russia, China, and Iran are in fiction.
References:
CBS News - Defense watchdog finds new 155mm artillery plant failed to produce parts in 2 years since it was built, hindering production goals (Jul. 15, 2026):
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/defense-watchdog-155mm-artillery-plant-production-goals/
The War Zone - New $500M Artillery Shell Plant Failed To Produce Any 155mm Parts (Jul. 14, 2026):
https://www.twz.com/land/new-500m-artillery-shell-plant-failed-to-produce-any-155mm-parts
The New Atlas - Why US Artillery Shell Production Isn't Enough & Why Other Munitions Will Fall Far Shorter Still (Time stamp at 9 minutes, 40 seconds, Feb. 2024):
https://youtu.be/auNyHniau5s?si=-bRFcvBtBwfJCOPE&t=580
Forbes - The Countries With The Most STEM Graduates [Infographic] (2017):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/02/02/the-countries-with-the-most-stem-graduates-infographic/
CNN - Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine (Mar. 2024):
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine
Modern War Institute at West Point - The Industrial Window of War: How to Measure Russia’s Munitions Throughput—and How to Disrupt It (Mar. 2026):
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-industrial-window-of-war-how-to-measure-russias-munitions-throughput-and-how-to-disrupt-it/
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