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Ukraine gets Rheinmetall 155mm shells three times more expensive (bulgarianmilitary.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tal to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] Kleinbonum@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago

That's some incredibly bad reporting and fuzzy math presented as facts:

The contract stipulates the creation of over 100,000 units of 155-mm ammunition via Expal, a Spanish company Rheinmetall recently acquired in November 2022 for a hefty sum of 1.2 billion euros.

Other, more credible reports state that the order is for several hundreds of thousands of DM121 shells - meaning the math here could be easily off by a factor of three or more.

Even Rheinmetall's own website states that the order is for several hundreds of thousands of shells.

Which would mean that these shells would cost about as much as they always have, and maybe even significantly less.