A high-ranking NATO military official warned on Wednesday, March 25, that alliance member countries urgently need to find new means to ensure their defense against their rivals and have not yet realized the gravity of the situation.
“We need to prepare, otherwise we will suffer what the Gulf countries are currently suffering,” attacked by Iran, warned the Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation (SACT), French Admiral Pierre Vandier, during the Defense Strategy Forum, which brought together defense sector actors for three days in Paris, reports News.ro.
These countries “were hit by Shahed missiles in 2019, they have no financial problems, they can buy whatever they want on the global market. It’s not a question of money, but of speed and good choices”, Vandier pointed out.
For NATO, “the challenge is not to do more of what we did before, but to find answers to the challenges posed by Russia or Iran in their way of waging war, in terms of the volume of weaponry and its rate of evolution,” the admiral insisted. “This is a moment of truth,” he added.
“We are witnessing the return of mass production, and our industry has produced systems (of weapons, ed.) that cannot be mass-produced,” he emphasized, noting, for example, that the United States produces a Patriot missile battery while Russia or Iran manufacture at least four ballistic missiles.
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