Ukraine’s Battle-Hardened Defense Industry Wants Foreign Investment

Ukraine has been ready for the Carmlin summer attack that would make heavy in the weapons stock. Be careful that rebuilding this supplies requires constant attention from its Western supporters, Kyiv opens what a “WEST” arms industry called for investors, and promised to become a “bread basket” in the world for deadly military equipment.

Over the past three years, Ukraine allies in NATO have donated $ 140 billion in military aid that helped restore Russia.

Ukraine has been ready for the Carmlin summer attack that would make heavy in the weapons stock. Be careful that rebuilding this supplies requires constant attention from its Western supporters, Kyiv opens what a “WEST” arms industry called for investors, and promised to become a “bread basket” in the world for deadly military equipment.

Over the past three years, Ukraine allies in NATO have donated $ 140 billion in military aid that helped restore Russia.

In addition to receiving missile defenses, drones and more traditional artillery, Ukraine has developed impressive weapons industry. A lot of attention to the manufacture of drones has been paid – 2.5 million drones are expected to be produced in 2025.

Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has built the arms industry with a capacity of more than $ 35 billion.

However, recent estimates indicate that only about $ 12 billion, according to Ukrainian officials, has been submitted, which means that there is a large amount of excessive capacity. Kiev hopes that the Western allies will take this opportunity to invest in the local weapons industry in Ukraine – and it makes the defense sector in Ukraine attractive as much as possible for Western investors.

“Of course, it would be better if they were directly donated, but we must also be realistic,” said Sirhi Kozan, head of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center. “We know that making our arms industry attractive as much as possible is the best way to keep our Western allies interested and send money here.”

Kiev’s external investors appear to appear to be like this:

Ukraine is still the first defense line in the West against the Kremlin, as it fought a battle on behalf of NATO by preventing Russian forces from advancing in the far west to Europe. Ukraine has done incredibly impressive, given early estimates that the country will decrease in three days, so it is in the interest of the West to continue providing Kiev with weapons.

Another part of the argument is that it is the cheapest and the fastest transfer of those weapons to the confrontation line if they are made in the country itself. The production of weapons in Ukraine is easier, as is the case, in light of the current situation in martial law, the nation does not suffer from bureaucratic, regulatory or logistical problems in the manufacture of weapons and their testing by most NATO countries.

If this is not sufficiently an incentive, Ukraine has become a “wild West” to produce weapons. These were the exact words used by a Ukrainian government official when I was in Kiev last month, describing how weapons testing in an actual battlefield against a real enemy pushes innovation faster than laboratories or test domains.

“What may take months, and even years of development, testing and manufacturing in the West will take only weeks here,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are directly involved in the war effort. “We are the best test field in the world because the mistakes here mean death. We can tell you very quickly how your product works or does not work in the battlefield.”

Western weapons companies will get ready to invest or work directly with the Ukrainian defense industry on real competitive advantages in the world of rapidly variable design of modern weapons. They will also be able to say absolute certainty of what works in the battlefield and what does not work.

When the war ends in the end, those who have benefited from the Wild West approach in Ukraine will find that they have a working power with the experience of the battlefield in the real world. One of the sources in the European Defense Industry said: “The smaller European countries that usually have smaller armed forces are necessarily obsessed with the idea of ​​the maximum destruction of the minimum cost,” said one of the sources in the European defense industry. “From this perspective, it will make sense to benefit from these people who know how to make the things we know with certainty.”

And money does not harm. Europe fell to spending up to 936 billion dollars on its nomination.

Exhausted weapons stocks will need to be replaced, and there will be many places that are able to compete with Ukraine when it comes to making piles of equipment by people with a busy record in making relatively cheap weapons.

Those who are in joint projects or who have opened factories in Ukraine will be placed in a good position to secure large orders of money amounts of money. The German giant Rheinmetall has already adhered to the opening of factories in Ukraine, while the largest defense company in Britain, Bae Systems, is one of the many of which has established a legal entity in the country.

NATO strategic assets in Ukraine also provides a possibility of providing a level of security without already recognizing the country in the alliance.

“If you have German engineers or British managers working in Ukrainian factories on joint projects, you will create a great deterrent to Russia launched attacks on those areas,” said William Albeck, a former NATO director in NATO. “The more you can confirm the arms industry in Ukraine in the European and European defense industry, the more they participate in decision -making and the more deterrent.”

This is the degree of sales. What is the downside? Well, Ukraine is a state that is still in war and there is no clear end on the horizon. We do not know how Ukraine will look politically within five years. If the war ends, there is no clear indication in the form of peace settlement in terms of land – or the assets that Russia may be able to seize. There is still every opportunity to launch another invasion at the bottom of the line.

There is also a small issue that Ukraine is under the martial law, which means that there are regulations for exporting weapons made in the country, as well as the lack of a clear timetable about when the investor may be able to export weapons outside the country for profit or to use them in local armies. Defense industry sources say that the uncertainty regarding combat rule also includes those who may belong to any intellectual property.

However, regardless of the risks, Ukraine loses this war and Russia has largely increased is the worst option for NATO. There are many who believe that even donations have not yet been presented through the exciting teeth, to the shame of the West – and that the need for commercial considerations is a stigma on the record of the West. Another Ukrainian official said: “We are really fighting a war on behalf of the West. If we lose, Russia will not stop in Ukraine. Without your support, we cannot simply compete with the size of weapons manufacturers.”