tomaldinho1
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My point was all the issues we (by we I mean all the European countries who seem to have been caught cold by this) are now rectifying at least some of the issues.Are they really? If yes, why could Europe only deliver 30% of the pledged ammunition? Why is the frigate "Hessen" that been sent to the red sea to secure water ways from Houthi terrorist attacks already short on ammunition and there are no replacements available. Thus the shop has to return once and is no further use.
I can only speak for Germany. The desolate condition the Bundeswehr is in, has been known since 2018/19.
5 years have passed, nothing has changed.
I'm also wondering were the billions and billions of Euro will come from to buy the necessary weapon systems and ammunition. Even if the money is made available with another "Sondervermögen", (translate to debt) Germany doesn't even have infrastructure and facilities to produce so many weapons and ammunition.
German politicians and the overwhelming majority of it's population (including myself) thought a strong army is a thing of the past, not needed anything and tax money would be spend better on other projects. The few who warned about Putin and Russian aggression were dismissed as war mongers.
The ammo issue is the main one NATO need to address through standardisation, someone else was posting about this a while back, when you look at all the different gear needed by the different NATO armies, it's ridiculous. That part needs urgent uniformity. That said France and Germany rank in the top 5 arms exporters, obviously the US is No1, so you have 3 of the top 5 globally in NATO.