New steering weapon Arrow 4: Germany's answer to Putin's air raids!
New steering weapon Arrow 4: Germany's answer to Putin's air raids!
The Bundeswehr is intensively prepared for possible Russian air strikes and plans the use of a new steering aircraft, which is seen as a potential gamuchanger: Arrow 4. This measure is part of the comprehensive strategy under the direction of Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who has the only ministerial office that has survived the change of government. In view of the Ukraine War and the ongoing threat from Russia, the role of Minister of Defense is of crucial importance.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz strives for Germany to have the “strongest army in Europe”. For this purpose, the Bundeswehr will benefit from the 100-billion euro special assets, which is intended to refresh and improve military capacities. Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul has already announced that Germany is planning to invest five percent of GDP in defense. This illustrates how seriously the security situation is assessed.
innovative defense systems
Lieutenant General Lutz Kohlhaus has confirmed the procurement of the Israeli rocket defense system Arrow 4, which was specially developed in order to intercept ballistic rockets, also those with nuclear, chemical and biological explosive heads. The Arrow-3 steering aircraft are able to destroy rockets in the ballistic path outside the atmosphere. According to information from Bundeswehr.de , the Arrow-4 rockets are used in the transitional class and could even absorb hyperschallrakets.The Bundeswehr aims to cover the entire range of height of 30 to 100 kilometers. Arrow 4 is viewed as a supplement to the existing anti-aircraft systems Patriot and Iris-T SLM. Arrow-4 technology is currently still in the development phase, which means that tests will still take months under real conditions. It is particularly important for the Air Force that another six Iris T-SLM systems are quickly obtained.
entire weapons systems and challenges
Overall, the Bundeswehr plans to use 29 weapon systems, including 16 Patriots, 6 Iris-T SLM and 1 Arrow system. However, the question of personnel remains a central concern: there are concerns about the availability of sufficiently trained personnel that is required to operate these state -of -the -art systems. It is important to cope with these challenges to ensure military operational readiness and to achieve the defense policy goals.
Bundeswehr and government are faced with the task of quickly implementing the planned changes and at the same time securing the military stability of Germany. Merkur reports that the way to a powerful army takes a big step forward.
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