Rheinmetall has opened a new munitions factory in Unterlüss, Germany—built in just 1.5 years. Once at full capacity, it could become Europe’s largest artillery shell production site, possibly even the world’s. Output is set to hit 350,000 shells annually, with much headed to Ukraine.
If it weren't for the United States being the world's greatest producer of military arms. The United States would be far less relevant in dealing with Putin. Europeans have certainly learned how unreliable the American voters are in supporting democracy.
You can thank the Republican't Party for that. They have slowly but surely eliminated all classes teaching comparative economy (geography first,), comparative support for their citizens, critical analysis, logic and anything decency related from schools and instead teach them entitlement & arrogence
And the Trump bible. 🤮
I don't know much about munitions manufacturing but is 350,000 a year a lot? That's about 40 an hour assuming 24/7 operation. Say they have 4 parallel lines, that's 10 / hour per line, or 6 mins per shell at the bottleneck.
Doesn't Ukraine needs at least a million Shells a year? So not even halfway there?
But it is not the only production site in Europe.
And Ukrain is not the only nation that wants those shells but probably the country with the biggest need. So they need to ramp-up the production asap.
Demand is 10x that so build more factories!
This is Rheinmetal new factory, they have others, target for 155mm is 1.5 million annually.
Once at full capacity? I already wrote reports with this sentence. Sometimes, I got away with it...
Europe is preparing for war. Should Russia prevail in Ukraine it will come soon. Should Ukraine prevail, it will only delay Russia's ambitions to invade Europe. Russia has shown their intentions and the West had best prepare for the inevitable.
You're assuming there will be anything left of Russia to have intentions. It isn't inevitable.
Yes, but if Ukraine prevails, it can delay Russian ambitions for maybe one or two generations. And at that time Russia will be mostly a de facto Chinese colony.
Russia will capitulate very soon. It operates by the Hitlers playbook. Then Russia will be split in Allied occupation zones. It is the only chance for Russia to survive. Look how Germany is reborn from ashes. The plan worked.
1000 shells per day. Not bad. Not bad.
Now if they could only be made to home-in on Pukie, his staff or any orc officer within range (in that order of preference.)
Not bad at all, the US produces about 1300 per day in total.
Still not good enough. But Rheinmetall is going to have more than one factory (and not all of them in Germany), so it might evolve into something good.
Get the air defences in place early.
Now build 9 more
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You wouldn’t know *anything* about this @demiurg.bsky.social ?
"Build it and they shall come" Yes, I do in fact know about that one, and there's more on the way. Much more in fact. I was not joking about EU reaching 75 percent of world arms and ordinance production.
Any chance you could have @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu do something more than a strongly worded condemnation? It’s very demoralizing. If she said “our next condemnation will come in the form of a squadron of Mirages” it would be better.
Von der Leyen is the president of the EU commision. She has no Mirage jets to offer to Ukraien. EU is not a federal state its a union of free and sovereign countries.
All arms within the EU is owned by the respective goverments. France and Greece is the only EU members that own Mirage fighters. Only the Greek and Frence goverments can pledge Mirage fighters to Ukraine.
And? Greece could pledge some and she could announce it. Or she could announce that EU money was being used to purchase jets for delivery. It’s honestly less about *her* and more about Europe responding to russian atrocities.
Greece isn't going to give major military tech away due to Turkey. The EU should rather introduce stringent controls on the black fleet ships. A two day control when entering and when leaving lake NATO will cause them to ship less oil per month.
Things are being done, but we do lack enough ships to both safeguard Greenland from the US, contain the Russian fleet(s), and at the same time stop all of the ghost ships. More things we need to build, and ships are truly annoying in that they take almost a decade to plan and build.
On the river Rhine they used to have chains to block it for customs enforcement. How wide is the belt? 😙
Öresund Ferry takes 20 minutes, Bälten Ferry takes 45 minutes. Both are to wide.
We can definitely order some, but the time to delivery would be somewhat prohibitive. Better to request that some are seconded to EDF through EUMS. Note that this is a micro-account, probably of Hungarian nature.
Not entirely, there are arms owned by EU directly. But Mirage planes are not one of those. EU can though via EUMS ask for them into EDF if needed.
That will come when we have enough bits and bobs to back it up fully.
Next russian target.
Well done, Germans! When you want to, you can do everything. Now it's time to work with your neighbor and ramp this up!
... And Ukraine will see to it that they are properly delivered to the orcs one at a time every 3.5 seconds or so depending on the vehicle delivering them.
Don't they have underground mine shafts to build these things in Germany? Hitler was smarter when he built his V2s...🤔
need this factory in every 500k+ pop city in europe!
The factory will be a prime target in war or as a terror attack now. I hope they have very good security. Could some of these key assets be sited underground such as old coal mines or quarries?
The US sells fighters with a kill switch, rockets you can't use against your invader and satellites musk switch off when he has a bad day on Twitter. Hegseth can hold back weapons already paid for. Don't buy US weapons. The stab you in the back.
US fighters don't have a kill switch. The kill switch nonsense was irresponsible speculation by a journalist. If it DID have a kill switch, then an opponent could discover it and use it - there's no way to build any software with a 'back door' that is not vulnerable like this.
The US just isn't a reliable defense partner. Look at the AUKUS deal.
You're missing the point, you were spreading misinformation about the so-called "kill switch" and I was pointing that out. I agree US isn't a reliable defense partner, it's that specific thing I wanted to call out
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A realistic concern would be cutting off the supply of spare parts and software updates, but there's ways around that too. (Look at the Iranian F4 Phantoms, still flying decades after losing US support.) But you're right about the other stuff.
We are not laughing with you Chump, we are laugh at you (and crying a lot too.)
And now replace this idiot's face with the map of the us and you'll hit exactly what the whole world is laughing at.
Great. This is really good for Ukraine
Germany is supplying Ukraine with everything it needs to win the war. And will lead free world away from filthy greedy MAGA, that supports war criminal dictators.
Good work, Germany!
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Meanwhile, France has just managed to increase its production rate of Caesar guns to 8 per month...
Deutschland delivering at last!
Germany has been delivering to Ukraine from early 2022 - just the new conservative chancellor had the Ministery of Defense delete the website that collected all deliveries to make sure his government does not look poor compared to the previous one lead by Olaf Scholz 🤷♂️
I know Germany has been sending a lot of important hardware to Ukraine, but never on the scale Europe's powerhouse should. I do have great expectations towards DE.
When scaled by GDP, Germany provided even more aid than USA: GER - GDP 4744 - aid 21.29 USA - GDP 30507 - aid 114.64 factor - GDP 6.4 - aid 5.4 (all in billion USD for 2025) Or in other words, GER provided 20% more aid relative to USA than it should have by GDP www.statista.com/statistics/1...
In addition, Germany also provides by far the largest share of the EU contributions: www.statista.com/chart/18794/...
As I said, Germany is Europe's powerhouse. Most EU countries did a larger effort than the US to help Ukraine when taking GDP in account.
GDP is a nonsense parameter when it comes to military aid. The GDP of Vatican is only a few million Euro. If they sent just a single Swiss Guard, they would easily lead the list - but would that make any difference 🤷♂️ Of course no, it's only absolute numbers that matter.
If that guard was a Swiss Chuck Norris it would make a huge difference. Otherwise, not really.
"Tell me you don't have a clue without telling me you don't have a clue ..."
I'm no expert in economics, but it wasn't me who brought GDP to this conversation. What I know is this: my small country, just like yours, did a greater effort to help Ukraine than mighty US when taking scale/ resources into account. Still I don't think it was enough and was expecting more from DE.
Good progress. Next, diversify production. We will kick Russia out of Europe!
