China News Network, May 5 According to the British "Financial Times" on the 10th, citing representatives of the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon has made the work of US military enterprises active and mobilized to the highest level in decades.
Pentagon Representative Jeff Jurgensen reportedly said that as a result of the supply of weapons to Ukraine, "the Pentagon mobilized defense industry enterprise jobs to levels not seen in decades." ”
Jurgensen added that before the start of the Ukrainian crisis, the US Department of Defense was already working to diversify its military industrial production. They launched a new strategy in January to attract small businesses to military production and help them compete for defense contracts.
Due to Ukraine's huge demand for weapons, many small defense companies in the West began to grow rapidly, posing a challenge to larger, high-profile competitors. The news shows that small companies can develop technology faster than large companies. A range of countries, including the UK, are trying to make it easier for small and medium-sized companies to secure large-scale contracts.
The newspaper also quoted Kuldar Vaarsi, CEO of Estonian Millam Robotics, as saying that one of the fastest growing industries in this field is drone production. He also believes that governments are trying to develop measures against drones, which, in his opinion, could soon lead to higher drone prices and that it will become less cost-effective for small companies to produce drones.
"We are at the beginning of a drone war." Valls said.
Earlier, Russia had already sent a note to all countries, including the United States, on the issue of supplying weapons to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any materiel containing Ukrainian weapons will become a legitimate target for Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry also said that the supply of weapons by NATO countries to Ukraine is "playing with fire." Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov pointed out that the delivery of weapons by the West to Ukraine will not help the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect.