Germany's defense company Rheinmetall plans to build a new factory for the production of artillery ammunition in Ukraine. — Ukrinform.
  • LoudWaterHombre@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    14·
    9 months ago

    I mean don’t get me wrong, I don’t support war (crimes) and Russia is the illegally aggressively invading Ukraine. But wouldn’t it be smarter to build the factory on the Polish side or something. How can this not be a risk and safety hazard for anyone to go near. It is literally a strategic military target and Russia most probably really wants to shell and rocket the fuck out of this building?! People are supposed to work there?

    • golli@lemm.ee
      4·
      9 months ago

      (Disclaimer i have no relevant qualifications)

      First of all that is not the only factory they are building. Rheinmetall is ramping up capacity accross the board and for example just laid ground for another one in Germany that is planned to produced 200k shells/year, So what you are suggesting is also being done

      This one specifically seems to be a joint venture with an ukrainian company, so it makes sense that they’d want to have that in their own country. Especially because that makes it less dependent on any other political shifts and longterm they will definitely want to have their own capacities anyways.

      It’s definitely a strategic military target, but this isn’t being build on the frontlines. I am pretty sure Ukraine right now will already have some factories producing military products that aren’t being hit. If it’s further back and you put an IRIST-T or Patriot battery in the vicinity, then Russia likely won’t have the ability to damage it.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    9 months ago

    Dope! Why directly in Ukraine, though? Wouldn’t it be better to put it in eastern Poland where it can’t be hit, with Ukrainian staff?

    Invest in eastern Poland plox