No. 344: Defense-Industrial Bottlenecks: Gunpowder

Author(s): Amos Dossi
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series Editor(s): Névine Schepers
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 344
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2024

Supply shortages in gunpowder highlight the challenges that Europe currently is facing in its quest to regain basic defense-industrial capabilities. The product is in high demand, and there is a strong preference to source it domestically. The expansion of the European supply base, however, is restricted by momentous technical and structural factors. Numerous states therefore opt for industrial policy measures.

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