Germany alone needs to buy ammunition for SEK 200 billion.
It's about everything from bullets to handguns to artillery shells and robots.
Exactly how empty it is in the warehouses is secret.
But filling them again is estimated to take several years.
The situation is worsened by the fact that there is a shortage of important raw materials and components, such as gunpowder and primers.
Breton expects that Sweden, as the country holding the presidency of the EU after the new year, will push to secure access to this.
Today, a large part of the manufacturing takes place in Chinese-owned companies.
- We really want to recommend an instrument that can secure the supply of strategic and critical materiel.
It will be presented during the Swedish presidency.
In this way, a clear mapping of where these components are located can be achieved.
Financial support will be proposed so that everything possible can be manufactured in Europe and so that production can be moved home, says Breton to SVT Nyheter.
Sports shooters and hunters are affected
The shortage affects not only the military, who are forced to save on ammunition, but also civilian sports shooters and hunters.
At Bayern's sports shooting association outside Munich, there is now less shooting than ever, says shooting instructor Andreas Koppelt.
- The supply of ammunition has been more or less cut off since a year ago.
There is nothing to get hold of or very little anyway.
From the time the war broke out in Ukraine, there seems to have been a lot of manufacturing, but almost everything goes to Ukraine.
It is not on the market for us, says Koppelt.
In addition to a lack of gunpowder, he points to another part of the cartridge case: the firing cap.
- It is claimed that the problem is that the material from which the ignition cap is made can no longer be obtained.
I wonder why Germany is unable to manufacture it, but has to import it from China, he says.