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☆ NATO’s next challenge: How to reverse years of underfunding defense
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Luke Mcgee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

For over a decade, allies have chronically underspent on defense while the West’s adversaries modernized and bolstered their own military capabilities. Defense spending stayed low across the West not just because of budget pressures, but also because everyone – including the US – was frightened to provoke Russia. However, the nature of NATO allies’ support for Ukraine – much of it direct military support – has exposed the vulnerability that years of underfunding has caused the alliance. Fabian Bimmer/Pool/ReutersThis means that the challenge in front of NATO allies now is not just how can they meet the demand for weapons coming from Ukraine, but how do they reverse years of underfunding their own defenses? Some allies don’t trust that others will be quite so generous with defense spending if the Russia-Ukraine war were to end.

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☆ Ukraine lures Western weapons makers to transform defence industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Olena Harmash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"Ukraine is in such a phase of the defence marathon when it is very important, critical to go forward without retreating. Results from the frontline are needed daily," Zelenskiy told executives representing more than 250 Western weapons producers. Executives from weapons producers from over 30 countries attended the forum. Ukrainian officials see the development of domestic defence production as a boost to the economy, which has shrunk by about a third last year due to the war. Several leading Western producers like Germany's weapon production giant Rheinmetall and Britain-based BAE Systems have already announced plans to team up with Ukrainian producers.

Persons: Fabian Bimmer, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Olena Harmash, William Maclean Organizations: Puma, Rheinmetall, REUTERS, Rights, BAE Systems, Foreign Ministry, U.S, Thomson Locations: Unterluess, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukrainian, Britain, Czech, Turkish

Papperger said on Thursday that factory workers would build and repair Rheinmetall’s Fuchs armored personnel carrier — named after the German word for fox — under license in the facility. Rheinmetall (RNMBF) will operate the plant in partnership with Ukroboronprom, a Ukrainian state-owned defense group, which will also own the facility. Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance/Getty ImagesFormer Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of current President Vladimir Putin, has said Russia would retaliate by hitting any facility Rheinmetall set up in Ukraine, Reuters has reported. For now, Papperger said, sourcing more ammunition was a bigger priority than building more tanks. In theory, he added, Rheinmetall could provide 60% of the artillery ammunition Ukraine needs.

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☆ Rheinmetall to boost propellant powder production by up to 600 tons per year, CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Sabine Siebold | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File PhotoBRUSSELS, June 16 (Reuters) - Rheinmetall will ramp up production of propellant powder for ammunition at its plant in the Bavarian town of Aschau by 500 to 600 metric tons per year, adding some 10% to its current global capacity of more than 6,000 tons, its CEO Armin Papperger said. Rheinmetall (RHMG.DE) has already kicked off an investment programme with this goal, Papperger told Reuters in an interview late on Thursday. "You can only do it if you have a very, very large order of, for example, 800,000 artillery shells," Papperger said. "This is not a situation we find ourselves in, which means we are finding other ways such as expanding our powder plant in Bavaria." In January, Papperger told Reuters that Rheinmetall was considering building a new powder plant, possibly in the eastern German state of Saxony, but that the investment of 700-800 million euros would have to be footed by the government in Berlin.

Persons: Fabian Bimmer, Armin Papperger, Papperger, Sabine Siebold, Conor Humphries Organizations: Lynx, Rheinmetall, REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Unterluess, Germany, BRUSSELS, Bavarian, Aschau, Bavaria, Saxony, Berlin, Ukraine

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