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Summary
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said 30% of Ukraine’s military equipment in 2024 was made domestically, showing the nation’s growing defense industry despite limited Western support.
Ukraine has expanded its production of weapons, including naval drones, missiles, and glide bombs, while foreign defense firms like Rheinmetall and BAE are establishing operations there.
Despite billions in aid, Ukraine faces equipment shortages and challenges from Russia’s larger military.
Experts criticize the West’s incremental aid approach, which complicates Ukraine’s strategic planning and may require further self-reliance if global support wanes.
The process is well understood. Making them isn’t really an issue. It’s getting enough of the right grade uranium.
That’s what I mean, share tech on uranium enrichment
The tech isn’t the difficult part, it’s the enrichment process itself. It involves vast numbers of gas centrifuges spinning uranium hexafluoride 24/7 for a very long time.
What about dirty bombs? Less effective, but still a deterrent?
E.g take out the refinery and deny the entire area moving forward.
Actually using it’s another matter, but the idea being it’d be a deterrent.
Ukraine was the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world, and is famous for it’s history with nuclear energy.
The issue here is that them starting the enrichment process is grounds for the start of WW3, and they wouldn’t complete the effort in time to offensively defend themselves. You’d have to give them entirely complete nukes and even that would just mean it’s nuke launchin time for a number of folks.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/a-ukrainian-nuclear-program-could has an explanation why it’s not really that easy. They made the nukes for the Soviet Union, they can find the info, it’s the experts and materials that are the problem.