Il piano di riarmo di € 80 miliardi tedesco mette in discussione le armi statunitensi – Il piano di approvvigionamento mostra che Berlino guiderà la sua massiccia arricciata principalmente verso l’industria europea
https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-defense-donald-trump-air-defense-washington-us-weapons/
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Well. If Germany is serious about rearming then it’s important to also develop regional industry. This is only way to ensure – capacity, capability and competitiveness
Buying from US companies will have continued dependence. EU is already depending on US for chips, Digital Services and Payment providers. It’s time to strike independence at least somewhere
And in addition, if Germany have access to weapons which don’t need US approval to be used, then it can have its own independent foreign policy
🇪🇺 Build and buy European!
The United States has become an unreliable partner.
It is vital that we buy European weapons and expend European defenses across the continent.
Frankly, Germany going crazy with rearmament worries me, knowing their history. It’s all fun when we all talk about defending Europe from Russia, but when AfD wins election (which is likely to happen within a decade, seeing how their support is spiking), I feel like their focus might quickly switch to rediscussing borders with their neighbors. I hope I am wrong.
> The only big-ticket items with American contractors in the lead are about €150 million earmarked for torpedoes attached to Boeing’s P-8A aircraft
This one can probably be dropped in the future too, the UK is [integrating its Stingray torpedo](https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-to-advance-10-8m-torpedo-upgrade-for-poseidon-fleet/) to the aircraft.
> The most expensive single item is the F-127 frigate program, planned to be designed by German marine giant TKMS. Due before the budget committee in June 2026, its estimated cost runs at €26 billion. The new warships are meant to provide long-range air and missile defense for the navy.
OK, but that ship includes a huge amount of American equipment; the main sensor will be the AN/SPY-6, the main armament will be 2 Mk 41 silos plus two RAM launchers. Conceivably they could fill the launchers with European missiles since the UK will integrate CAMM, Aster and Stratus…but Germany’s track record is Standard family missiles from the US. So I’d expect that bracket to hide quite a large amount of value that will go to American equipment too, though of course given the ships are only 30% of the total value and it won’t remotely all go to the US it doesn’t change the story that European manufacturers are the major winner over US ones here.
Poland waits for German tank order 😄😂
I kinda doubt its doing much to the economy. The problem is: The sum of all military revenues is at max the military spending, like 80 b€ in Germanys case. But this is ridiculously low. Mercedes has revenue of 150b€ alone. Everyone who thinks the 80b€ will do much to the economy really needs to look at what the top 10 companies in EU revenues and compare that.
The most important thing is to have a new nuclear programme in Europe. Conventional weapons are extremely important, but it’s also a never-ending rat race in a way that nuclear weapons aren’t.
The US nuclear deterrent has been entirely nullified by the radical volatility of US elections, and the French elections are arguably even more volatile. Not to mention the hate Macron has for the concept of sharing nuclear weapons is even greater than that of Trump’s.
Without an ironclad nuclear deterrent, tactical nukes come into play. And they will come into play if the nuclear status quo remains as it is now.
Europe First
Well done 💪
Production capacity just does not rise that fast. This will primarily increase cost / unit. Not more weapons.