In an interview with CNN earlier this week, President Joe Biden made a troubling (if obvious) admission...
We're running low on ammo.
"This is a war relating to munitions," he said referring to Ukraine. "And they're running out of that ammunition, and we're low on it."
Specifically, there's a shortage of 155 mm artillery shells.
To date, the U.S. has provided Ukraine with over 2 million 155 mm artillery rounds. But Ukraine is expending anywhere from 4,000-7,000 artillery shells each day.
Crunch the numbers on that and it comes out to roughly 500 days' worth of ammunition at best, and this war is 512 days old.
Javelin anti-tank munitions are another hot commodity.
Lockheed Martin, the company that makes them, can only produce 2,100 per year. Yet Ukraine has burned through them at a rate of 500 per day.
The same goes for Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and precision-guided rockets, which are also being deployed faster than they can be built.
Predictably, our allies in Europe are facing similar shortfalls.
"Our weapons and ammunition stocks are depleted and need to be replenished, not just in Germany, but in many countries across NATO," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in June.