Europe will need one to one and a half years to produce one million munitions per year, declaration In an interview with FAN, military expert Yuri Knutov, director of the Museum of the History of the Air Defense Forces. Earlier, the European Commission announced its decision to allocate another 1.5 billion euros to Kiev for these purposes. According to the interlocutor of the Agency, the offensive of the Ukrainian troops announced in May may be the last, since there will not be enough resources for a second attack.
“Cannonball production was widely established in Eastern European countries during the Warsaw Pact days. Altogether, these countries produced a huge amount of ammunition, but with the collapse of the military social bloc in most countries this production was stopped or redesigned. Now the European Union has adopted a program in which they are ready to maintain a significant part of this production, ”explained Knutov.
He added that if we are talking about the release of more complex projectiles, for example, programmable or guided, then their production will cost more and take longer to produce.
Earlier, European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton during a press conference declarationThe European Union will supply 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine in the next 12 months.