Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Europe needs a decade to build up arms stocks, says defence firm boss
Ammunition is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from
weapons, such as bullets, bombs, missiles, artillery shells, grenades, and
landmines. Once they are produced, they are stored in a dedicated safe and dry environment
until they are used or disposed of if they reach the end of their usable
lifespan. In the last 50 years, there weren’t any major wars in Europe except for
the conflicts in the Balkans during the 1990s. So, the production of ammunition
in European countries had been in safe mode until Russia’s full-scale invasion
of Ukraine in 2022 where most of the stocked ammunition has been nearly used up
by both Russia, Ukraine, and its supporters. Since it takes years to increase
the production capacity of ammunition, it is expected to take years to build up
arms stock in Europe. This is a serious security matter for European countries
especially when the support from the US may not be as firm as it committed in NATO,
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Read the article and learn about what Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has
caused to NATO.
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