The United Kingdom has also already begun taking steps to make up for weapons donated to Ukraine. "There are going to be several big awards coming in February and March that will just move us further down that path," Bush said at the time. The United States remains Ukraine's biggest single-country donor of weapons, and the Defense Department already has plans in place to replenish its supplies.ĭoug Bush-assistant Army secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology-said during a January briefing that the Pentagon is preparing to place large orders in the coming months to increase American stocks of weapons. In some countries, increased production has been made a goal even without NATO making such a request. The shells used in howitzers, HIMARS missiles and ammunitions for defense systems like the U.S.-made Patriots and Germany's Gerards were specifically named. The NATO source also reportedly told Reuters where members are experiencing the biggest shortages and pointed to munitions that have been used to great effect by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's forces. Putin ally calls for striking Parliament in London: "No more red lines".planning terror attacks inside Russia, Foreign Intelligence claims How Wagner boss interview points to major rift with Kremlin.Insofar as the current war gives insight into possible future warfare, there's an added urgency to the task." William Reno, professor and chair of the political science department at Northwestern University, told Newsweek that nations now seeing the realities of attrition warfare will find it's "hard to suddenly gear up production to meet that demand. "I would be absolutely gobsmacked if the targets.were not increased." "Those NATO that we set, and each ally has a specific target, those were not being met for the most part ," the NATO official told Reuters. Now, though, NATO will reportedly request that members make up for the reduced supplies by increasing weapons production. The targets laid out by NATO for members' stockpiles are said to vary from each country, but the exact numbers in those targets are classified.Īccording to Reuters, many officials from NATO countries had "considered wars of attrition with large-scale artillery battles a thing of the past." Therefore, multiple NATO countries had let their stockpiles decrease even before Russia launched its prolonged conflict. NATO allies are each asked to maintain a degree of defense capability should they be needed to participate in any conflict involving the alliance. Photos by GINTS IVUSKANS/AFP/Pierre Crom/Getty Images Reuters reported on Monday that a NATO survey found some members' weapons stockpiles did not meet alliance targets. The smaller image shows a Ukrainian artillery unit firing a M777 cannon in a field on January 9 in Kherson, Ukraine. In the main photo, a NATO logo is seen on a uniform during a military exercise in Adazi, Latvia, on November 29, 2021.
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