Daar lijkt het op. Was net een artikel aan het zoeken dat ik had gezien over de best grote Russische shell productie. Kan ik nu even niet vinden. Vond wel dit
politico artikel, was volgens mij nog niet gedeeld. Dit artikel biedt nog wat nuance.
De 1 miljoen wordt dus niet gehaald:
“We have to assume that the 1 million will not be achieved,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at the start of Tuesday’s summit of EU defense ministers.
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“The question of whether 1 million was ever realistic was actually the right one,” Pistorius added. “There have been voices that have said, 'Be careful. One million is easy to decide, the money is there, but the production has to be there.' Unfortunately, those voices are now right.”
Wat is er wel bereikt?
That’s not to say that it’s been a complete failure; 300,000 rounds have been shipped since February 9 under a program to send shells from national stockpiles to Ukraine. But officials have increasingly poured cold water on reaching the million mark in just four more months. On Friday, a senior EU diplomat said the goal was “very ambitious” to begin with.
Toch is er ook wel wat kritisch te zeggen. De Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton zegt er het volgende over:
He questioned the claim that the Continent’s defense production capacity has reached the upper limit.
“Keep in mind the European defense industry is exporting a lot — about 40 percent of the production is being exported to third countries,” he told reporters before chairing the defense ministers’ meeting. “So it’s not a lack of production capacity; it is that they send their products to [other] markets. So maybe what we have to do is to try to shift this production to the priority one, which is Ukrainians.”
Met dit als veeg uit de pan:
As for Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, he’s putting the blame on capitals. The EU’s ammunition target will be met if governments sign contracts, he said.
Maar we kunnen gelukkig positief eindigen, want de trendmatige info gaat definitief de goede kant op (iets wat ik mijzelf al best wat keren heb afgevraagd)
“Ammunition production capacity increased by 20 to 30 percent. We’re on target to increase our production capacity by spring, now it’s a matter of member states placing the orders,” he told reporters.
Breton said he has seen production increases in countries including Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and Romania. Now it’s up to capitals to place orders and to ensure that their arms industries make Ukraine a priority.
In de lente van volgend jaar kan de Europese industrie dus de productie capaciteit bereiken om vanaf dat moment 1 miljoen shells per jaar te gaan produceren. Cruciaal zijn hierin de orders van onze nationale overheden om de industrie het mandaat te geven door te gaan met die opschaling resources en.... personeel), materialen te hatchen (dat moet nu al kunnen gebeuren). De industrie is dus niet een bottle neck meer, de overheden moeten wel achter hun vodden aangezeten worden voor de contracten en het prioriteren van de behoefte van Oekraïne boven alle andere behoeftes.