05-29-2024, 11:35 PM
This is sort of a bad news/good news article about shell production in Europe: https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05...rm-ukraine (I gifted the article so it shouldn't be behind the paywall)
There is a supply crunch for materials that go into shells; the article cites that there is one remaining TNT producer in Europe, in Poland. Other raw materials have to be imported (for example, cotton linters, an ingredient in nitrocellulose, has to be procured from China).
The good news, such as it is, is:
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There is a supply crunch for materials that go into shells; the article cites that there is one remaining TNT producer in Europe, in Poland. Other raw materials have to be imported (for example, cotton linters, an ingredient in nitrocellulose, has to be procured from China).
The good news, such as it is, is:
Quote:EU-wide annual shell production is projected to reach at least 1.4m by the end of 2024, up from around 500,000 a year ago.
BC