Well yes, but fortunately in most areas we already have decent European manufactured equipment. Hopefully just a matter of ramping up production

My gut feeling (and reading about current weapon sales) says the 2024 numbers are way lower. We had so many domestic contracts for Rheinmetall, BAE, SAAB, Thales, … and the smaller companies.

In other news: rain mostly wet, nights darker than days, state leaders neither honest nor sharpest knives in drawers…

Oh, they invest in a lot of joint projects.

Everyone loves joint projects in cooperation with the US to develop something again that they could already have bought from that pesky competition of a neighbouring country.