German weapons-maker Rheinmetall opened Europe’s largest munitions plant on Wednesday, a move hailed as boosting Western defences by NATO chief Mark Rutte.
German weapons-maker Rheinmetall opened Europe’s largest munitions plant on Wednesday, a move hailed as boosting Western defences by NATO chief Mark Rutte.
100 rounds do not matter if they are made so poorly and fired from cannons so old they end up hitting 3km away from the target. Even more so if the cannon is obliterated minutes later thanks to precise counter fire.
1 round matters greatly if it lands exactly where it was supposed to. As the round is in the air, the cannon has already packed up and is on its way somewhere else, making counter fire impossible.
If you have many cannons and they all shoot at roughly the same area, the many imprecise rounds end up saturating the area effectively.
I fully agree with you that we cannot just look at the raw numbers, but we should also acknowledge that quantity can beat quality. In the modern context we see that with drone swarms that overwhelm sophisticated missile AA systems and lead back to the quantity over quality defense with high RPM cannons being more effective.