Army's 155mm production rate stalls, 100,000 per month mark delayed till spring 2026

By Dominic Minadeo / July 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Army is still churning out 40,000 155mm artillery shells per month, a stalled rate that matches the pace the service announced it had hit nearly a year ago . The expectation at the time was that the rate would climb to 100,000 rounds per month by December 2025; the service has recently bumped that timeline, instead shooting for the middle of 2026 -- “think spring,” Steve Warren, Army deputy chief of public affairs, told reporters at the Pentagon today...

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