Increasing production will take time though, and the US won't allow its own stocks to go lower than a certain level just for Ukraine. Right now they seem to be getting or maybe paying other countries to send their own stocks while they get production going.
There is no issue with GMLRS rockets for HIMARS because the US hasn't given Ukraine that many of the rockets since they are used for precision strikes not fired in big barrages.
Lockheed Martin COO Frank St John said the company currently produces about 7,500 rockets per year but it can go higher. ‘We have capacity to produce 10,000 rockets a year’ for US and export customers such as Ukraine, St John told CBS News, adding that Lockheed Martin is conducting analysis to ‘potentially take that up to 12,000-14,000 rockets a year’. LaPlante said that an expanded production rate can be sustained ‘as long as the demand is needed… We can keep production lines open for 30 years.’
Ukraine is firing a few hundred rockets per month, tops. It simply doesn't have enough high value targets to justify firing more.
And as for artillery shells, the US has sent about 1 million but has about 10 million, and is ramping up production rapidly:
“We are seeking over a couple of years to nearly triple our production of 155 [mm shells],” Bush said on Wednesday. Congress has been supportive; we have funding; we are executing and making that happen. “Production rates do need to increase and are increasing,” Bush said. “I don’t know how long the conflict is going to last. We are doing things, though, to ensure that if it goes on for a long time, we’re going to be in a place to support it, based on the best information that we have. War is an uncertain enterprise.”
The only real threat to the US right now is China, and the CCP isn't in any position to start a war any time soon, at least for a few years. When that war finally comes, it will be fought almost entirely by aircraft and naval ships, not by ground based artillery.
Increasing production will take time though, and the US won't allow its own stocks to go lower than a certain level just for Ukraine. Right now they seem to be getting or maybe paying other countries to send their own stocks while they get production going.
There is no issue with GMLRS rockets for HIMARS because the US hasn't given Ukraine that many of the rockets since they are used for precision strikes not fired in big barrages.
Ukraine is firing a few hundred rockets per month, tops. It simply doesn't have enough high value targets to justify firing more.
And as for artillery shells, the US has sent about 1 million but has about 10 million, and is ramping up production rapidly:
The only real threat to the US right now is China, and the CCP isn't in any position to start a war any time soon, at least for a few years. When that war finally comes, it will be fought almost entirely by aircraft and naval ships, not by ground based artillery.