Text taken from a Telegram post by article by Alexei Volynets
[ColonelCassad] A little more about shells and "Fields of Flanders" in Novorossiya… Last year, the daily consumption of shells by the RF Armed Forces ranged from 10,000 during calm days to 50,000 at the maximum. These figures are named and recognized by all sources and experts.
We are talking about the consumption of ordinary “classic” shells by artillery, not about something expensive, controlled and highly accurate. 10,000 a day is a natural shell hunger. And 50,000 per day are separate days at the limit. We take something in between - 25,000, even more - 30,000. This is something that can more or less provide the current front without the calls “Shells for the Wagners!” This for a year, 365 days, will be 10,950,000, or a little less than 11 million.
And now we are looking at the production of shells a little over a century ago, during the First World War. Basically, these are the same calibers and the same shells in terms of production technologies. Kaiser Germany in 1917 produced 108 million shells, and in 1918 even more - 121,000,000 shells! Even Italy produced impressively - 34 and 36 million, respectively, in 1917 and 1918. Tsarist Russia, at the height of its tension in 1916, produced just over 33 million shells. Those. a century old country would cover three such Special Warfare Operations.
During the Great Patriotic War, the production of shells was even higher. In 1942, the USSR fired 73.4 million artillery rounds, and in 1943 almost 86 million. In 1994, already 94.8 million! That is, almost 9 (nine!) Special military operations ...
What is it for? And to the fact, firstly, that our hostilities have already outgrown the scale of a local war, but are still an order of magnitude far from the scale of world wars ... And secondly, and this is the main thing, that there are never too many shells. We need more.
(с) A.Volynets