THE COMING AMMUNITION GAP: A new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies is sounding the alarm about the length of time it will take to rebuild America’s munitions supply, substantially depleted by constant arms shipments to Ukraine.

Because of the limited capacity of the defense industrial base, which has been largely scaled to a peacetime production rate, the estimated time to replace the thousands (and in the case of artillery shells over a million) of key weapons systems and munitions ranges from a low of 2.5 years for HIMARS to 18 years for Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, with the average being five years or more. See the full chart here:

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