NATO ministers will discuss production increases with the largest defense companies.
NATO defense ministers will meet the heads of 25 major Western defense companies on June 15 as they continue their efforts to boost munitions production. Euractiv reported this, citing its own sources.
It was noted that Kyiv’s allies in the West are studying how to continue sending Ukraine the necessary military equipment. Governments are asking defense companies to boost production, while companies are asking for clear long-term demand signals to justify investment in new manufacturing facilities, supply chains and personnel.
“There is hope among representatives of the defense industry that this meeting is a step forward in working on a future action plan. However, as sources told the publication, the official agenda of the meeting was not has yet to be made public, and no concrete results are expected,” the publication said.
Among those invited are mainly officials and leaders of defense companies that produce various types of ammunition, such as rockets and rockets.
The industry meeting “is particularly focused on combat-defining munitions,” a NATO official said before the meeting.
From the side of the European defense industry, the Belgian FN Herstal, the French-Italian MBDA, the Finnish Patria, the German Rheinmetall, the Norwegian Nammo, KNDS – the union of the German KMW and the French Nexter, the Italian Leonardo, and Turkish Roketsan is invited.
Representatives of several industries from NATO’s eastern side – the Bulgarian Arsenal and the Prague Czechoslovak group – are also expected to participate.
The United States will be represented by Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin, which manufacture the Javelin, HIMARS and Patriot missile systems supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The list of invited companies also includes drone manufacturers such as Turkish Baykar and Portuguese Tekever, as well as British BAE Systems, Romanian Romarm, Croatian battle tank manufacturer Đuro Đaković Grupa, Estonian Milrem Robotics and Belgian Thales.
It will be recalled that EU members have transferred 220,000 shells of various calibers and 1,300 missiles to Ukraine as part of the first track for the supply of ammunition.
Source: korrespondent
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