The Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský, announced at the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels that the Czech ammunition initiative had secured artillery ammunition supplies to deliver to Ukraine at least until September, according to the .
The Jikov Motor Group, an automotive company and foundry based in the Czech city of české Budějovice, was negotiating with the STV and Czechoslovakia groups, two of the largest arms companies in the country, to produce artillery projectile bodies, according to the portal .
Its owner, Miroslav Dvořák, declared that the group has been looking for all possible ways to enter this flourishing business. However, penetrating the supply chains of arms manufacturers, which have decades of seniority, is not easy and will take time, he added.
Meanwhile, the Czech automotive company Koh–Noor Holdings is using the arms industry to compensate for the decrease in orders. Robert Záboj, director of the company’s machinery-tool division, told the E15 website that he was in conversations with the Czech subsidiary of the American manufacturer of arms Colt to produce tens of thousands of polymer frames for the new gun “česká Zbrojovka”.
The traditional arms industries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia are intensifying their ammunition production. At the beginning of October, the MSM Slovak Group, manufacturer of ammunition with facilities in Slovakia, Serbia and Spain, inaugurated a new line of production ammunition of 155 mm in Snina, east of Slovakia, which will have the capacity to produce about 350,000 units a year once it is fully operational.
“I am greatly pleased with the dynamic development of the Slovak Defense Industry. A solid national industry contributes not only to our security, but also to the security of Europe,” said Slovaco Defense Minister Robert Kaliňák.
CSG Defense Czech company announced at the end of 2024 the signing of an agreement with the Ukrainska Bronetetenika weapons manufacturer to produce large caliber ammunition directly in Ukraine. The objective, according to Richard Kuběna, commercial director of CSG, is to produce 100,000 cartridges this year and expand production to 300,000 by 2026. Russia’s large -scale invasion in 2022 has been the catalyst for European Defense Industries.
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