Europe capability is growing, we just have to continue to step it up
>In February 2023 Europe’s production of 155mm shells, the mostly widely used calibre, was around 300,000 rounds a year. Today it is probably just shy of a million. Rheinmetall, a German company, churns out some 700,000 a year, up from just 70,000 in 2022, and expects to hit 1.1m by 2027. “We already produce more ammunition than the United States,” Armin Papperger, Rheinmetall’s boisterous CEO, crowed recently: US Army plants turned out perhaps 600,000 rounds last year.https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/03/20/europes-armsmakers-have-ramped-up-capacity
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>Europe has gone from what analysts called “almost handmade” artillery shell production in 2022 to output levels that could soon rival China’s — and outpace Russia’s — just three years later.>“The United States has become a non-factor in terms of new contributions,” the Conflict Capital analysts note. “Everything currently flowing to Ukraine was already contracted by the previous administration.”>Altogether, that’s nearly 2 million shells per year — enough to sustain a rate of 5,000 to 5,500 rounds per day if fully allocated to Ukraine. When factoring in Ukraine’s growing domestic production, the numbers edge even higher.https://united24media.com/latest-news/europes-artillery-production-skyrockets-poised-to-overtake-russia-and-rival-china-by-2026-7873
>>507583041yes i agree, russia has to be stopped now and forever. russians have always been and acted like enemy. we, europeans, have to grow up and take responsibility for the future
>>507585586bcs we're moving forward (see all above)
