Giving Ukraine modern tanks remains a key question facing the country’s allies after a meeting of top defence officials in Germany on Friday yielded little progress. But perhaps the most exposed link in supply chains for producing such weapons runs on ...
Russia is at the centre of a rail cargo route supplying Western arms manufacturers with a steady supply of metals needed to make the microchips, electronics and ammunition used in modern weaponry. Most of the so-called rare earth elements are mined in China. Russian Railways JSC and other carriers are hauling a rising volume of critical metals needed for Europe’s defence industry.
Wurmser spoke from Davos, Switzerland, where he was meeting with industry executives trying to diversify supply chains of strategic minerals. Norge Mining has claims in Norway that include large deposits of vanadium and titanium, two metals critical for the defence industry, and whose production is currently dominated by China and Russia.
Chinese-mined rare earths like lanthanum are widely used by Western weapons producers for armour-piercing ammunition. Mostfor tungsten – a heavy metal used for anti-tank weapons made by Thales Air Defence and Rheinmetall AG – is covered by China. Having adversaries with overlapping supply chains isn’t an entirely new phenomenon, said European Council on Foreign Relations military-trade analyst Rafael Loss. Japan used US scrap metal for its navy in World War II. During the Cold War, Soviet metal supplies helped stock western arsenals pointed at Moscow.
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