Ukraine’s domestic missile production remains insignificant — Taras Chmut
While Ukraine does produce its own medium-range missiles,
their quantity remains insufficient to have a meaningful impact on the
battlefield, Taras Chmut, head of the Come Back Alive charity foundation, said
in an interview with YouTube channel Pressing on Aug. 13.
Chmut pointed out that the term "missiles" is broad, ranging from Stugna anti-tank systems to Vilkha MLRS ammunition and Neptune anti-ship missiles.
“Can we consider ourselves a missile-building country with just 10 missiles a year?” he asked a rhetorical question.
“Can we say we produce missiles with only 10 a year? Probably yes. Can we achieve our objectives or win with just 10 missiles? Obviously not.”
Chmut added that some of Ukraine’s lighter, short-range missiles, are produced in substantial quantities, up to tens of thousands, depending on their type.
On April 12, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine needs to ramp up domestic weapons production.
Previously, Ukrainian Defense Intelligence spokesman Andriy Yusov reported that during the war, Ukraine has managed to begin producing domestic variants of some U.S. armored vehicles, such as M113 APC, MaxxPro, and Humvee.
Another example is the Bohdana self-propelled howitzer: Ukraine now produces eight of them every month. Prior to the 2022 Russian invasion, the country had only one such artillery system in service.
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