Friday, December 15, 2023 4:15:42 PM
Germany will supply Ukraine with additional 155 mm artillery shells as part of military assistance. The budget committee of the German Bundestag approved a framework agreement with a French ammunition manufacturer, as reported on the website of the German Bundestag.
This agreement allows for the production and delivery of up to 350,000 large-caliber projectiles. Under the framework agreement, the French company has already received an order from Germany for the production of 68,000 fragmentation-explosive shells for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, worth 278 million euros.
“Other countries may join the framework agreement, as this project is part of the European Union’s initiative to accelerate the delivery, procurement, and production of ammunition for Ukraine.”
The aim is to “increase European production of ammunition in the long term, so that EU member states can replenish their ammunition reserves.”
In early December, German defense conglomerate Rheinmetall received a new order to supply Ukraine with tens of thousands of 155 mm artillery shells for 142 million euros. The artillery shells will be produced by Rheinmetall Expal Munitions in Spain and will be delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2025.
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They try to do good, but bureaucrats in the German defense ministry still haven’t understood how much ammunition a full scale war requires. Ukraine could easily use ten thousand grenades every day to get the upper hand against the RuSSians. 68.000 shells, which will be delivered late next year, or maybe even in 2025, is an amount that’s like two magnitudes too small. European production will either have to be revved up to millions a year, or a much higher share of ammunition has to to be smart and precise, to cover the shortfall by much higher lethality. Also, there needs to be more drone and radar to better id the targets. Enough with all the ignorance and the small scale thinking, after 21 months of war, it’s high time to be consequential and pull out all stops.