Enceladus skrev: ↑tisdag 23 april 2024 17:49
Exclusive: US preparing $1 billion weapons package for Ukraine, officials say
Reuters skrev:The United States is preparing a $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, the first to be sourced from the yet to be signed Ukraine-Israel bill, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
The aid package includes vehicles, Stinger air defense munitions, additional ammunition for high-mobility artillery rocket systems, 155 millimeter artillery ammunition, TOW and Javelin anti-tank munitions and other weapons that can immediately be put to use on the battlefield, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Experts expect a boost in the order backlog of RTX (RTX.N) along with other major companies that receive government contracts, such as Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), General Dynamics (GD.N) and Northrop Grumman (NOC.N), following the passage of the supplemental spending bill.
USA:s första stödpaket till Ukraina på mycket länge blir i miljardklassen. Det amerikanska militärindustriella komplexet jublar!
Tja, de har väl orderböckerna fulla redan nu. Några som inte jublar är väl europeiska MBDA, BAE, Thales, Safran, KMW, Rheinmetall etc. Fast amerikanska pengar ska ju till USA, förstås.
EU har försökt ta ett samlat grepp om den europeiska försvarsindustrins framtid, men Europa är ju lika splittrat här som överallt annars.
De länder som har betydander försvarsindustri (se kartan ovan) är ju protektionistiskt lagda, medan de länder som inte har tycker väl att "vi köper väl från vem vi vill" och då blir det USA eller Israel. Köper man amerikanskt får man dessutom stjärna i boken i Washington. Ev. samordning av anskaffning sker väl dessutom i förekommande fall genom Nato.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace har nyligen skrivit en essä om detta försök till europeisk strategisk samordning:
Understanding the EU’s New Defense Industrial Strategy
Carnegie skrev:The strategy aims to increase European defense industrial readiness through collaborative EU-based investment, research, development, production, procurement, and ownership. In short, the EC wants member states to buy weapons together, and to buy them in Europe.
More than three-quarters of the defense acquisitions by EU member states between the start of Russia’s invasion and June 2023 were made from outside the EU, with the United States alone representing 63 percent. But buying from third countries involves minimal European technology and intellectual property content and poses a risk to local skills and knowledge. It can also be harder to justify before European taxpayers who are asked to accept higher defense spending. The strategy envisions that by 2030, at least 50 percent of member states’ procurement budget (60 percent by 2035) should go to EU-based suppliers and that at least 40 percent of defense equipment should be procured in a collaborative manner.
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All these measures are aimed at incentivizing European governments to collaborate—and prevent them from looking outside the EU when they buy arms. Today, European governments purchase ready-made equipment from the United States because this is considered faster and more predictable than relying on European defense cooperation and a good way to secure U.S. interest in European security.
The EC cannot do much about the fact that European countries still look to the United States for protection. Although the new strategy does point out the fragility of this arrangement, that same tenuousness might be even more reason for some governments to try to curry favor in Washington. The EC can, however, work to increase European defense supply chains’ reliability. Now that war has returned to the continent, defense planners want to make sure their own militaries have access to all necessary defense equipment in times of crisis. The EC is keen to establish European security of supply, irrespective of the member state in which suppliers are located. It wants intra-EU defense trade to represent at least one-third of the value of the EU defense market.
EC är den engelska förkortningen för EU-kommissionen.
Allt kokar förstås ned till varifrån pengarna ska komma. Som det heter i essäns ingress
Carnegie skrev:The timing has never been better. But without long-term funding, the strategy will fail.
Med ilskna bönder, högerextremister och putinister i hasorna får de europeiska ledarna det inte lätt.
Oviljan att lätta på det nationella intresset när det gäller LV-system till Ukraina visar ju ex.vis på det.
Det transatlantiska bandet är fortsatt viktigt för att förhindra Putin och Ryssland från att förverkliga sin Eurasien-vision.
Men vart är USA påväg egentligen? Dödsstraff, abortförbud, HBT-förbud och fria vapeninköp, det är modellen, det.