I had a look on teh youtubes for the German artillery manufacturer mentioned in the article and found this rah rah video from 2021 which shows the overpriced death machinery our taxes are getting showered on:
' Rheinmetall Artillery – Range Dominance.
Rheinmetall – The integrated technology group
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Rheinmetall sets the standard of excellence for the highest priority modernisation needs of artillery systems, particularly in key aspects of long-range precision fires – firing systems, cannon-delivered projectiles and propellants. Rheinmetall’s PzH 2000* 52-calibre length (L52) 155 mm howitzer tube is widely considered the best in its class and the celebrated Assegai family of 155 mm munitions, paired with Rheinmetall’s new Extended Range Top Charge propellants, have substantially outperformed conventional artillery systems in live fire testing.
Built on more than a century of excellence in advanced artillery solutions, Rheinmetall innovations offer ready now lethality solutions urgently needed to restore overmatch today and ensure it remains tomorrow.
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* In the joint venture with the prime contractor Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Rheinmetall is responsible for about 50% of the PzH 2000.'
At 3,600E per shell, with 300,000 manufactured and shipped to Ukraine this year - 1.08bnE by my calculations - just think of what could have been accomplished with all that money, energy and effort could have been used. It's enough to make you weep...
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