NATO has announced contracts worth more than a billion euros with companies in Germany and France to supply 155-millimetre artillery ammunition. The first orders will be delivered “within 24 to 36 months,” said the director of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), Stacy Cummings, in a press conference at the military alliance’s headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. According to NATO sources, the contracts worth €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) should enable the purchase of more than 220,000 shells. The 155-millimetre shells can be used in Caesar and Panzerhaubitze 2000 weapon systems, both…