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...Assuming each carries 30 rounds priced at €5,000 each, and 30 days of supplies are kept on standby, that would account for €3.6bn of additional sales....
...Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gazan health authorities....
...The Investigative Committee said it had discovered two Kalashnikov rifles, 28 magazines and more than 500 rounds of ammunition at the scene of the attack....
...The US on Wednesday announced a new package of $200mn in new lethal assistance, including AIM-9M missiles for air defence, ammunition for Himars, 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds and other weaponry....
...The US has an estimated 3mn DPICM rounds stored in US and allied bases in Europe....
...The EU has also fallen short in fulfilling existing pledges made to Kyiv, sending less than half the 1mn rounds of ammunition it promised last year.But Ukraine’s situation was far from hopeless, stressed...
...Context: Ukraine is firing something like 5,000 artillery rounds a day, which is roughly what a small European country buys in a year during peacetime....
...“I personally sit in my office every morning and spend 30 minutes on 155[mm] ammunition,” US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said last month at the Aspen Security Forum....
...UBS reported a $29bn pre-tax profit for the second quarter which ended on June 30 — the biggest ever quarterly profit for a bank....
...Germany also intends to buy up to 330,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition in the coming years, of which around 20,000 rounds will be earmarked for Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the plans...
...The Sueddeutsche said Ukraine had only 30,000 rounds of ammunition for the Gepards left, which limited how often they could be deployed....
...George Parker Well, I thought it was a nice try and I thought Rishi Sunak did as well as he possibly could have done in that round of prime minister’s question time, given the amount of Liz Truss ammunition...
...Even the EU is breaking new ground, agreeing last week to spend €1bn on joint orders of ammunition, and use €1bn to reimburse member states for supplying rounds to Ukraine from existing stocks....
...And they’re also fully aware that state finances are under severe pressure all round....
...[the father] immediately turned round and then the car faced live ammunition.” The protests stem from the death in custody in September of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman....
...The latest package will include additional ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket systems (Himars), tens of thousands of rounds of artillery and mortar ammunition, anti-armour systems and armoured...
...So Bolsonaro has now got fresh ammunition for his argument that the polls are rigged and not true. The other issue is that, of course, it’s now probably going to be a fairly close second round....
...Fashion The newly named HTSI rounds up the best of summer style for men, modelled naturally on the beach....
...Meanwhile, there is a dire shortage of ammunition....
...It makes tanks and ammunition and all sorts of armoured vehicles....
...Emmanuel Macron is now in full campaign mode, given that the first round of the French presidential (re-) election is less than a month away....
...The probe is a setback for Emmanuel Macron only days before the first round of the presidential elections....
...Oliver RoederSo we are watching chess.com’s broadcast of round 11 of the Candidates Tournament. Lilah RaptopoulosThis tournament is a huge deal in the chess world....
...Routsi said it had also emerged that 569 rounds of ammunition had gone missing from the platoon after a shooting exercise....
...Ukrainian forces, potentially outnumbered three to one by the Russians according to western defence officials, have meanwhile run low on ammunition and other weapons....
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