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...Umerov said Ukraine’s “absolute critical daily minimum requirement” was 6,000 artillery shells, but his forces were currently only able to fire 2,000 each day....
...Russia’s war in Ukraine has turned into “a battle of ammunition”, Nato’s head has warned, as supply shortages have forced Kyiv’s military to ration artillery rounds....
...This will include a mix of 1,600 strike and air defence missiles, 4mn rounds of ammunition and an unspecified number of Storm Shadow cruise missiles, one of the most powerful weapons in Kyiv’s arsenal....
...of 155mm and another 300,000 rounds of 122mm calibre which we can deliver within weeks if we can find quickly funding for that”....
...Sales of tanks such as the Leopard 2, made in collaboration with KMW, create a future market for Rheinmetall’s 120mm shells. It hopes to add 800 tanks to Europe’s armoury....
...Jens Stoltenberg was speaking after Nato signed a contract for “hundreds of thousands of rounds” of 155mm artillery ammunition. Here’s more on the agreement. 3....
...on their ammunition depots, anti-ship missiles and drone storage facilities....
...It has committed to boosting the output of artillery rounds and forecasts total sales will double by 2026 compared with last year....
...Ukraine meanwhile is running short of ammunition....
...The IMF revised its own GDP growth forecast for Russia to 2.6 per cent this year, a 1.5 percentage point rise over what it had predicted last October....
...Nammo’s Brandtzæg quoted different figures — he said that Ukraine was using about 2.4mn rounds a year, or 200,000 a month....
...an initial round of ammunition worth €309mn “as soon as the contract was signed”....
...The US has an estimated 3mn DPICM rounds stored in US and allied bases in Europe....
...The US said on Tuesday that it is sending $2.2bn in new lethal aid to Ukraine as Kyiv gears up for a critical spring counteroffensive, including more air defence, ammunition and artillery rounds for a variety...
...Russian records suggest it has shipped about $2.1mn of goods to Orlan LLC — a St Petersburg company that is a self-described fishing equipment supplier....
...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...
...EU foreign and defence ministers in March agreed an ambitious target to supply 1mn rounds of ammunition to Ukraine within a year....
...Separately on Monday, Poland started training Ukrainian troops on German Leopard 2 main battle tanks....
...Demand was particularly strong for its weapons and ammunition, including armament for the Leopard 2 tank, with the division reporting an order intake of €3bn in 2022, more than double that of the previous...
...Vladimir Putin’s defence chief travelled to Pyongyang on a mission to secure ammunition for the invasion of Ukraine last month....
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...The EU has issued seven rounds of sanctions against Belarus, and member states last week agreed to an export ban on goods such as firearms, ammunition and products related to space and aviation....
...The Sueddeutsche said Ukraine had only 30,000 rounds of ammunition for the Gepards left, which limited how often they could be deployed....
...Each round of ammunition might cost €6,000-€7,000. Tanks carry 40-plus rounds. If every tank fired 20 rounds a day, monthly ebit would be around €1mn per vehicle, applying a 25 per cent margin....
...Related: EY in the UK has told staff to expect less generous pay rises this year and prepare for a small round of redundancies....
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