Russian military expert Andrei Frolov, in a column for Izvestia, assessed the reserves of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of NATO countries to help Ukraine.
In his opinion, the Western military industry has not worked in mobilization mode since, probably, the Vietnam War, and therefore "production does not have preserved mobilization capacities, as well as extra funds to create new productions."
In addition, the author noted that some Western equipment, in particular the portable anti-tank guided missile Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon (NLAW), did not perform very well, so "the Ministries of defense of NATO countries are likely to accelerate the development of new complexes."
"All of the above allows us to conclude that the Western military—industrial complex has certain reserves for increasing the production of complexes demanded by the Ukrainian army, but it will not be expressed in orders — at best tens of percent," the expert assures.
According to him, "the preparation of the production of new batches will take months." "And this means that supplies to Ukraine will be carried out from the warehouses of NATO armies in approximately the same mode that took place until today," the author concluded.
In April, Frolov said that during the Russian special operation to protect Donbass, the Kharkiv "bush" of Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises was destroyed.
