The Financial Times ran a long analysis yesterday which found that the capacity of European arms factories is “expanding at three times the rate of peacetime, stretching over 7 million sq meters of new industrial development that represents rearmament on a historic scale.” The analysis based primarily on data from ground-mapping radar satellites as well as imagery and other data over a period of years, found that “Building activity at European arms sites has gone into overdrive since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022….”
“The data suggests about a third of the sites reviewed showed signs of expansion or construction work,” FT continues. “The scale and spread of the detected work suggests a generational shift in rearmament, moving Europe from just-in-time peacetime production towards building an industrial base for a more sustained war footing.
