shell hunger
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- A shortage of ammunition, particularly artillery shells.
- 2000 January 1, J. M. Winter, Geoffrey Parker, Mary Ruth Habeck, Mary R. Habeck, Professor Jay Winter, The Great War and the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
- Prior to the war, for instance, Russia's total production of machinery of all kinds met less than 50 percent of the empire's internal demand. [...] The deleterious result was the great "shell hunger" of 1915, the German conquest of Poland, Livonia, and […]
- 2021 October 29, Rem Word, Revolutionary. Frame by frame, Litres, →ISBN:
- The weapon plants of the German Empire succeed in overcoming the shell hunger faster than the others. The photo shows a Russian artillery battery […]
- 2023 April 18, Olga Voitovych, Ukrainian commander says Russians "unsuccessful" in most areas of frontline[1], CNN:
- It [the Ukrainian government] also said that Russian forces appeared to have plenty of munitions, deviating from a “shell hunger,” or lack of ammo supplies, preciously reported by the Russian private military group Wagner.