Sustained gunfire and NATO's preference for precision strikes consume munitions at different rates. Precision can reduce the number of weapons needed for a particular effect, but it does not make ammunition depth irrelevant. Stockpile-duration estimates still look optimistic once a high-intensity campaign begins. Modern gun-cruiser speculation therefore rests partly on logistics: planners must ask what a weapon can hit and how long the force can keep firing it.
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Precision strikes do not remove the ammunition problem
NATO's preference for precision attack may reduce expenditure against some targets, but wartime stocks may still run out sooner than planners assume.