EU Set to Double Output of Artillery Shells After Slow Start
- Estonia’s Pevkur sees doubling by year-end or start of 2024
- EU is boosting production to aid Ukraine and refill stocks
Artillery shells at a factory workshop in Tarbes, France.
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Europe’s production of artillery ammunition is on track to double as the region’s industry overcomes an initial struggle to ramp up output in efforts to help Ukraine’s war effort and boost the continent’s supplies, Estonia’s defense chief said.
“We see that European industrial capacities have gone up, so this is a positive trend,” Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said in an interview Monday. “Probably by the end of the year — or the beginning of next year — we can produce almost double the size we were producing in Europe compared to a year ago.”