Not talking artillery here. Talking small arms ammo. I'm pretty sure Russia doesnt come close to producing 2m artillery rounds per year. Saw an article the other day about them running out of artillary barrels. If they couldn't manufacture enough barrels to keep up with shooting, I doubt their general manufacturing capacity.

Outside of that, that's two million non-NATO small arms rounds being donated by the private sector. Pretty sure the government would send M4s and SAWs with 5.56.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russia is on course to produce 2.5 million artillery shell rounds this year, up from 1.7 million before the war, Watling said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/18/europe-weapons-military-industrial-base/?isMobile=1

[–] flying_monkies@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure they say they are. I'll still doubt their capability

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Watling said

Dr Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute

[–] vaalla@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But is the correct type? .22 does not really help Ukraine.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

There are probably enough guns in Texas to give every Ukrainian both a primary weapon and a sidearm lol