German govt orders another 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles for Ukraine – Rheinmetall
German govt orders another 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles for Ukraine – Rheinmetall
Rheinmetall has received an order from the German federal government for the supply of 20 additional Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, the company's press service reports.
Why can't we all just get together at tell Rheinmetall, Nammo, etc. that we'll buy as much as they can produce for the next five years, with possibilities for extensions?
The primary issue here is that with orders coming piecewise, manufacturers don't have a strong enough incentive to ramp up production a hundred fold, which is what we need. That would also presumably reduce the per-unit production costs.
12What you want basically requires Europe to switch to a war economy. Pray that won't ever be needed
6I do hope that won't be needed, I also don't think the production capacity of European weapons manufacturers is at a level where we would need to move to a war economy to buy out everything they can produce (I may be wrong, in which case I'll moderate my statement). Finally, I think that with peace-time regulations in place, manufacturers will take enough time to scale up production that we could literally buy everything they're capable of producing without surpassing like 4% of GDP.
However, I can agree that a better, more moderated statement, would be "We'll buy everything you can produce over the next five years, up to a limit of <insert absurdly large number here> per year". To safeguard against accidentally agreeing to spending like 10 % of GDP on weapons.
The point is that manufacturers need an incentive to massively scaly up capacity now, because if shit hits the fan tomorrow, Europe will be suffering severe shell hunger, and other weapons deficits, for at least a couple years until we're able to scale up production sufficiently.
4@phoenixz @CapeWearingAeroplane Wake up, it is already needed!
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Because Germany. I mean what if next year a different camo pattern is in vogue? Then you'll be stuck with all the orders of the old one and you're the one that gets blamed.
-4The fuck does Germany have to do with this? Germany is the second largest donor right after the US, and by a wide margin too. Where the fuck is the rest of Europe? Where the fuck is the US backing their half-assed security guarantees from the Budapest Memorandum, after forcing Ukraine to give up their nukes & long range bombers? This constant idiotic scapegoating & disinformation spreading against Germany is really fucking annoying.
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Here's hoping they'll add another zero to those orders down the line.
5Here's hoping some other EU countries may back up Ukraine same scope Germany already did.
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