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Defense: France and Europe want to catch up with Russia
The Ministry of the Armed Forces put pressure on French factories on Tuesday March 26 and threatened to carry out requisitions. How to explain it? Elements of response on the set of 20 Heures, with journalist Stéphanie Perez.
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The Ministry of the Armed Forces put pressure on French factories on Tuesday March 26 and threatened to carry out requisitions. How to explain it? Elements of response on the set of 20 Heures, with journalist Stéphanie Perez.
If the Head of State is so urgent with the arms manufacturers, it is because France and Europe must catch up with Russia. “On the question of shells, in particular. When the United States and the European Union produce 1.2 million shells per year, Russia produces almost three times as many”the result “of an economy geared towards war”, indicates journalist Stéphanie Perez on the set of 20 Heures. In total, this represents 500,000 additional jobs, and factories running 24 hours a day.
Russia must reveal tank challenge
“And it can be seen on the ground: according to NATO, currently Russia fires nearly 10,000 shells per day, Ukraine only 2,000. As a scale, annual French production would allow Ukraine to hold on. .. ten days”, continues the journalist. If the stock figures of Ukraine’s allies are confidential, they are “at their lowest level”. Russia, on the other hand, must take up the challenge of producing tanks: according to a British study, it lost 3,000 in 2 years, or 85% of its capacity. Russian factories currently produce around a hundred per month.
