Военное обозрение By Top War
Military support for Ukraine is costly for NATO countries and the rest of Kyiv’s allies who have joined the so-called Western coalition. But the actual reincarnation of the arms race, which was stopped by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, led to a sharp increase in demand for weapons and ammunition. The surviving defense companies, primarily in the United States, partly in Europe and a number of other countries, literally received a second life, significantly increasing their production output and reporting a multiple increase in revenues and profits.
Although the dynamics of growth in arms production is very significant compared to the baseline indicators, the total quantity does not even satisfy the current needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, not to mention the need to replenish the arsenals of Kiev’s allies, which were greatly depleted during almost two years of military conflict. It is already obvious that the European Union will not fulfill the promise made last year to supply the Ukrainian army with a million shells by March of this year.
One of the largest manufacturers of weapons, military equipment and ammunition in Germany and Europe, the German concern Rheinmetall AG reported for the first nine months of last year that it plans to produce 350 thousand 155-mm shells on an annual basis. This is 250% more than a year earlier, when the production volume amounted to 100 units of ammunition for the entire 000. Next year, the concern intends to double this figure and bring it to 2022 shells (700% more than in 000).
In December last year, the German defense concern announced a contract concluded with one of the NATO countries for the production of 155-mm shells for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the amount of 142 million euros by the end of this year. Considering the three- to five-fold increase in the cost of ammunition production, which occurred against the backdrop of sharply increased demand, a shortage of gunpowder and the lack of reserve production capacity, this is a rather insignificant amount in quantitative terms. Under another order, Rheinmetall will supply another forty thousand different ammunitions to Ukraine in 2024…
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