Industrial Capacity Expansion (Operational Priorities)
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Strategic Industrial Production Capacity Critical Supply Chains
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About this report
Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022 starkly exposed a critical strategic problem: the defence industries of NATO Allies and EU member states lacked the capacity to sustain high-intensity warfare over time .
For decades after the Cold War, many Western countries had downscaled munitions production lines and kept only modest war reserve stocks, assuming that protracted large-scale conflicts were unlikely. These assumptions proved flawed as Ukrainian and Russian forces began expending artillery shells and missiles at rates not seen in Europe since World War II, rapidly depleting NATO stockpiles .
Key questions this report answers
- What defence-industrial capacity shortfall did Russia's 2022 war expose in NATO/EU munitions production?
- How do mission sets, readiness models and command architectures frame the need to sustain high-intensity warfare?
- Which capability families, technology clusters and industrial-base actors are needed to rebuild munitions and war-reserve stocks?
- What structural bottlenecks and dependencies constrain expanding artillery and missile production?
Inside this report
- Mission Sets, Theatres, Domains and Scenarios
- Force Posture, Readiness Models and Command-and-Control Architecture
- Capability Families, Tactical Building Blocks and Performance Requirements
- Technology Clusters, Industrial Base, Value Chain and Structural Bottlenecks
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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DFM reports are built from primary and official sources — TED procurement notices, CORDIS and the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, EIB operations, the NATO Innovation Fund portfolio, SIPRI data, official budget documents and company disclosures — read together with the underlying legal texts. Sources are cited in the document; it reflects them as of its publication date (02 February 2026). You receive a 27-page PDF, watermarked to you on every page, delivered on the confirmation page and by e-mail immediately after checkout (personal link valid 72 hours, up to 5 downloads). Guest checkout, single-user licence — Terms of Sale.
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