Russia and China are ahead of: the West faces a sharp shortage of weapons - wsj

In the light of the growing number of potential threats from Russia and China, as well as in view of the growing demand for such systems, orders for them are significantly increased, creating problems in prompt support. "I have never seen such great demand," said Eyrik Lee's defense unit of the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defense.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the main problem in the impossibility of rapid satisfaction of increasing demand is the complexity of modern weapons, which in most cases requires thousands of details for production. "Kongsberg, like most Western defensive companies, projects and collects its weapons systems but does not produce most of the components. More than 1500 suppliers contribute to the products of this plant.

Nasams is only one thousand companies and built for two Continents, along with the US defense contractor RTX, previously known as Raytheon Technologies, "the publication reads. It is also noted that in the defense industry there was a problem of prolonged shortage of skilled labor. According to military analysts, despite the increase in defense budgets, the event has not encountered similar restrictions on weapons since the Korean War.

"Only ten largest defense companies in the event currently have orders worth more than $ 730 billion, which is about 57% more than at the end of 2017, when demand began to grow," the statement said. We will remind, on January 2 Russian invaders carried out another mass shelling of Ukraine. Drones-Kamikadze, "daggers" and other missiles were launched. The damage was recorded in Kharkiv and Kyiv regions, as well as in Kiev.