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They are about where all Socialist countries are doomed to reach.
By any measurement, Germany is close to being in the same economic and political conditions that enabled Hitler to come to power.
From above:
Although it has long been known that the Bundeswehr faces an ammunition shortfall to the tune of 20 billion Euros, confidential documents from the Federal Ministry of Defence available to Welt am Sonntag show that procurement has all but stalled. The Ministry has so far submitted hardly any major ammunition procurement proposals to the Bundestag budget committee for approval this year.
The low munitions stocks are held to be one of the greatest weaknesses of the Bundeswehr. Experts estimate that current stocks would only last for one or two days in the event of a conflict. In order to cover Bundeswehr requirements which are calculated at 20 billion Euros worth of munitions by 2031, 2.5 billion Euros would have to be purchased every year until then. ?
Nothing like that amount of money has been allocated, or even can be allocated. With the exception of some guided missile purchases for Navy frigates and some future plans to buy some additional rifle rounds and Panzerhaubitze 2000 projectiles, nobody in the listless Scholz government seems to care very much. The problem arises both from years of chronic under-funding and from heedless aid shipments to Ukraine, which Germany can ill-afford to make good. Of 22 million small arms rounds sent east in the middle of 2022, for example, the Bundeswehr has been able to replace only 14.6 million.
By any measurement, Germany is close to being in the same economic and political conditions that enabled Hitler to come to power.
From above:
Although it has long been known that the Bundeswehr faces an ammunition shortfall to the tune of 20 billion Euros, confidential documents from the Federal Ministry of Defence available to Welt am Sonntag show that procurement has all but stalled. The Ministry has so far submitted hardly any major ammunition procurement proposals to the Bundestag budget committee for approval this year.
The low munitions stocks are held to be one of the greatest weaknesses of the Bundeswehr. Experts estimate that current stocks would only last for one or two days in the event of a conflict. In order to cover Bundeswehr requirements which are calculated at 20 billion Euros worth of munitions by 2031, 2.5 billion Euros would have to be purchased every year until then. ?
Nothing like that amount of money has been allocated, or even can be allocated. With the exception of some guided missile purchases for Navy frigates and some future plans to buy some additional rifle rounds and Panzerhaubitze 2000 projectiles, nobody in the listless Scholz government seems to care very much. The problem arises both from years of chronic under-funding and from heedless aid shipments to Ukraine, which Germany can ill-afford to make good. Of 22 million small arms rounds sent east in the middle of 2022, for example, the Bundeswehr has been able to replace only 14.6 million.