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Originally Posted by Rockstar
Artillery shells or not, Both sides have gone through barrels with little in the form of replacements. I just don’t see the massive barrages we witnessed at the out set of hostilities ever happening again by either side. This is a battle of meat waves.
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A howitzer barrel usually is good for a few thousand shots before its steel becomes brittle or bends. If an artillery battery doesn’t replace worn-out barrels in time, it risks catastrophic accidents as shells explode inside their guns. Around Avdiivka, Bakhmut or Krynky, Russian artillery batteries might need to replace their barrels every couple of months. Technicians are yanking the barrels off the old towed guns and using them as a replacement for worn-out barrels on the most important self-propelled howitzers. The Russians are cannibalizing their towed artillery in order to keep their self-propelled artillery in action, with Ukraine destroying daily artillery at a high rate with cheap drones it is the question of how long Russia has barrels in stock or production to shoot those millions of shells.