PRODUKCJA BRONI ARTYLERYJSKIEJ W EUROPIE

Artillery is the basic equipment of every army. The study contains a review ofcontemporary corporations and armaments factories operating in European countries,producing various types of artillery weapons together with a detailed catalog ofmanufactured equipment. For better presentation of the situation in this industry of thearmaments industry, the distribution and structure of artillery production has also beenshown in graphic form. Due to the limited volume possibilities, the subject of the studywas narrowed down to those producers of artillery weapons who signed contracts fordeliveries with even one army in Europe. Therefore, for example, producers notconducting mass production, producing only prototypes participating in armaments fairs,was not taken into account. The division of artillery weapons into several categories isconsidered: stationary barrel artillery, self-propelled barrel artillery and rocket and antiaircraft artillery. Due to the common classification in the chemical industry, the studyomitted a group of producers of artillery ammunition and manufacturers of ship, tankand other departments, not used directly in artillery weapons. Also missile rocketmanufacturers were omitted. Research on the condition of the armaments industry wasmade by the method of analyzing the current reporting of research institutes of thearmaments industry and arms control. This allowed for a synthesis in the form of a mapof the European armaments industry in the artillery branch, which is the objective ofthis study.