Looks like the EU is starting to accept they are going to have a border with Russia instead of Ukraine.
>“…I can confirm that the target of producing more than a million rounds of ammunition a year, which we set ourselves and which they hope to achieve from spring onwards, will be met. Now it’s up to the member states to place the orders.”
Not a problem with manufacturing, but member states need to allocate their budgets and buy more shells for Ukraine.
Credit where it’s due, Germany is stepping up. 👏
Even with the shells, they still need more young recruits. The artillery won’t fire by itself.
At least most of the ones we sent hit their targets
Until the US remains a part of NATO and it’s most active member, these rich europeans will continue mooching off America. I have come to believe these treaties where the US is stuck defending its “allies” have become a major problem as they are more dependencies than allies. There would be more US leverage and better allied performance if there werent defense treaties obligating America to defend europeans, koreans, Israelis, japanese, AusNz, Phillipines….the list is endless!
Wouldn’t it be a shame if pirates were to seize some NK vessels loaded with ammo headed for warring client states.
Germany recently pledged to become the backbone of defense in Europe
France delayed the ammunition deal for weeks by trying to shoehorn in this agreement and now, months later, the EU isn’t able to hold up its end.
Poland and the other EE countries wanted to focus on buying shells ASAP regardless of where they came from and not hitch Ukraine’s military planning to EU’s anemic production.
I thought the headline meant 1 meter artillery shells. That would be one big ass gun.
Well something is better than nothing . I mean atleast they tried to do so
Hopefully this war stimulates long term production capacity increases. We’ll need it if things ever kick off with China.
Ukraine needs this, we can’t let them down.
EU countries not hitting their pledged defense spending? Who could have ever predicted this???
Well we have a problem with recent migrants not finding jobs. And we have a problem with scaling ammunition manufacturing. How about we hire these migrants to build more shells? We can replace some automation with manual labour to improve the efficiency of the skilled workers.
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Step the fuck up.
Looks like the EU is starting to accept they are going to have a border with Russia instead of Ukraine.
>“…I can confirm that the target of producing more than a million rounds of ammunition a year, which we set ourselves and which they hope to achieve from spring onwards, will be met. Now it’s up to the member states to place the orders.”
Not a problem with manufacturing, but member states need to allocate their budgets and buy more shells for Ukraine.
Credit where it’s due, Germany is stepping up. 👏
Even with the shells, they still need more young recruits. The artillery won’t fire by itself.
At least most of the ones we sent hit their targets
Until the US remains a part of NATO and it’s most active member, these rich europeans will continue mooching off America. I have come to believe these treaties where the US is stuck defending its “allies” have become a major problem as they are more dependencies than allies. There would be more US leverage and better allied performance if there werent defense treaties obligating America to defend europeans, koreans, Israelis, japanese, AusNz, Phillipines….the list is endless!
Wouldn’t it be a shame if pirates were to seize some NK vessels loaded with ammo headed for warring client states.
Germany recently pledged to become the backbone of defense in Europe
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/s/qE9duHRQKa
France delayed the ammunition deal for weeks by trying to shoehorn in this agreement and now, months later, the EU isn’t able to hold up its end.
Poland and the other EE countries wanted to focus on buying shells ASAP regardless of where they came from and not hitch Ukraine’s military planning to EU’s anemic production.
I thought the headline meant 1 meter artillery shells. That would be one big ass gun.
Well something is better than nothing . I mean atleast they tried to do so
Hopefully this war stimulates long term production capacity increases. We’ll need it if things ever kick off with China.
Ukraine needs this, we can’t let them down.
EU countries not hitting their pledged defense spending? Who could have ever predicted this???
Well we have a problem with recent migrants not finding jobs. And we have a problem with scaling ammunition manufacturing. How about we hire these migrants to build more shells? We can replace some automation with manual labour to improve the efficiency of the skilled workers.