Europe is undoubtedly ramping up its defence capabilities. However, in many countries necessary political decisions needed in order to achieve defence readiness are yet to be taken and should therefore be expedited. The state-of-play is now largely even worse than before the start of Russia's war of aggression. Defence supplies sent to Ukraine have depleted stocks while replenishing them is not following the same pace. Lack of forward-looking planning and even current data on national fleets remains a major challenge across Europe.