Geopolitical tensions upgrade tungsten, antimony and germanium, further highlighting the status of strategic metals

2014 occurred worldwide, "continuing the war," more than 10 plays, more than any other year since the new century, the great power game increasingly intense, frequent regional war, the world situation is more volatile. From Eastern Europe for a year has not stopped the war in eastern Ukraine, the Middle East intensified armed extremist "Islamic State" has been captured near the Syrian capital of Damascus, and then recently, Saudi Arabia and other countries combined air forces of the Yemeni armed Jose expand codenamed " decisive storm "of air strikes. Looking to 2015, the international community is faced with complexity, variability and uncertainty are still outstanding, the world situation has intensified the trend, local wars will enter a period of more, and the war continued to grow significantly.

In the world of local wars frequent background, a large number of military status for strategic metals manufacturing industry tungsten, antimony and other small metal germanium further highlighted. Germanium, tungsten, antimony and other strategic metals because of their special properties and excellent performance, is the basis of modern defense irreplaceable material and strategic resources for national defense construction has a crucial role.

Germanium is also a modern military applications indispensable strategic resource, its main infrared optics. Under the conditions of modern warfare, infrared camera has been on individual combat systems, tanks, satellites, missiles, aircraft and other military weapons and a wide range of applications, enabling reconnaissance, surveillance, positioning, precision-guided, precision strike capabilities. In 2011, the infrared optical germanium demand in the military occupied compare up to 88%. America is back in 1984 as a defense germanium will reserve resources, currently the US Defense Logistics Agency stocks strategic material remains at more than 16 tons. In the Gulf War, the United States, for example, the US per capita with 1.7 units / person, Infrared configure the number of more than 200,000 units, according to industry experts estimate that each device needs to count 700 grams germanium, germanium need 140 tons.


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