German government’s order of billions to strengthen the army

– International news – Tasnim News Agency According to “Focus” magazine, Germany orders two new warships and hundreds of armored vehicles to strengthen its army .

In this way, the German federal government wants to issue orders worth seven billion euros in this current quarter to advance the major repairs of the German armed forces.

Bloomberg reported this news. It has been reported by people familiar with these plans. Accordingly, the German government coalition known as Traffic Light wants to order several hundred armored vehicles in addition to two new naval frigates. The value of the order for two F126 class frigates is expected to be around three billion dollars.

Frigat 126 is also a new project that the German Army handed over to the Dutch company Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding in June 2020. The construction will be carried out entirely in the German cities of Volgast, Kiel and Hamburg.

It is expected that the first ship of this fleet will be delivered to the Bundeswehr in 2028. These frigates must be ready for global deployment and be able to fight targets on water, under water and in the air. Bundeswehr also wrote on his website: The most important tasks of these frigates include maritime surveillance, sanctions is to support special forces and evacuation operations.”

The German army is facing many problems, especially in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, including the lack of equipment and personnel.

Although the German army Only in exceptional cases is it allowed to recruit underage soldiers in this country, but the crisis of personnel shortage has accelerated the process of such recruitments in this country’s army.

Meanwhile, social democratic parties, Greens and Liberal Democrats had agreed in the federal coalition agreement that training and service with weapons should be for adult soldiers. In this way, due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Germany’s ability and capabilities to defend themselves. It has been exposed to public attention once again. The German Ministry of Defense recently announced that last year there were about 27,000 vacancies in the German army. Recently, it has risen again in Germany.

Boris Pistorius, the Federal Minister of Defense of Germany, has supported the plan to reduce debts in order to effectively increase the budget of the army and the need to discuss this in this coalition government or government. Pistorius also said it was necessary to consider whether an exception could be made when applying the debt brake provisions for security spending. In the so-called traffic light coalition, the Liberal Democratic Party strongly opposes reducing the debt brake. The provisions contained in the constitution set strict limits for accepting new debts. In an interview with ZDF, Pistorius requested this from his coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party, and said: “Everyone should move.” There is no other way to bypass this law. According to him, the barrier to new debt should be removed for additional costs for security. According to him, this is urgently needed. He emphasized: “If we are attacked and we cannot defend ourselves, the most beautiful digital libraries and the most beautiful bicycle highways are of no use to us.” However, the Liberal Democratic Party showed no desire to surrender. In response to Pistorius’ statement, Christoph Meyer, a budget expert for the Liberal Democratic Party faction in the German parliament, told AFP: “There will be no exceptions for the debt brake or other facilities.” Asking for more and more debt only reveals a lack of will to consolidate and boost economic growth. Meyer said higher defense spending could also be achieved through tighter priorities in the federal budget.

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