Strengthening air defense is on Germany’s agenda

According to the international group Tasnim news agency “Hamburgraband” newspaper Blatt “wrote in an article: The situation of the German army has received more attention in Germany since the beginning of the Ukrainian war. The Bundeswehr (German military) has been under constant surveillance since the Ukraine war. Drones are becoming more important and a return to previous strengths is on the agenda. How important is air, especially against drones? The German army is now learning from this issue. The Army wants to right a wrong and re-establish the Air Defense Force, which was disbanded in 2012. This procedure is a kind of return to former strengths.

This news has raised many expectations in military circles. However, the German Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on this.

At the beginning of the new millennium, the German armed forces were gradually trained for foreign missions such as Afghanistan. And there was no need to have an anti-aircraft army. They literally adopted austerity policies. A lot has changed since then.

On the one hand, the Russian attack cannot be ruled out. Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown that he has no qualms about using armed force to pursue political goals. National and coalition defense has been prioritized again. On the other hand, drones play a much larger role on the battlefield. Other armies are also drawing conclusions from this issue for more weapons and supplies. In 2010, they were retired and supplied to Ukraine. They have proven themselves well in the war against Russia. There is no documented case of one of these anti-aircraft tanks being destroyed or captured, quite the opposite. Geppard is considered a real hell machine against drones. That is why America found this old anti-aircraft tank, for example, in Jordan and bought it for Ukraine. Army Inspector General Carsten Breuer has decided to “transfer area protection capabilities to the Air Force. He then decided to create an Air Defense Force by 2028.

In Germany, when the air force loses a function – and the army regains a competence – it is called a transfer of capability. It has recently been decided in Germany.

The fact that the construction process takes several years is not only because the equipment must be procured and delivered Many of the active soldiers of the former Air Defense Force will be found and reactivated. It will be difficult to start this process. For the war period, due to the continuation of Russia’s war against Ukraine, it has put the reform of the command structures of the army on the agenda.

Based on the decisions made by changing the command structure, the army Germany must find a greater ability to take military action.

In November of last year, at the German Army Conference, Boris Pistorius, the German Minister of Defense, described warworthiness as A Principle for Action” announced in the new Defense Policy Guidelines. He also asked Carsten Breuer, the inspector general and deputy of this ministry, to consider these reforms. One of them is the shortage of equipment and personnel.

In this situation, although the German army is only allowed to recruit underage soldiers in this country in exceptional cases, the shortage crisis Personnel has accelerated the process of such recruitments in the army of this country.

The Bundeswehr is facing a problem in finding a sufficient number of troops. Germany’s federal education minister recently urged schools to “develop a relaxed relationship with the military. I think it’s important that young officers come to schools and report what Bodensohr is doing for our security.”

In this way, due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Germany’s ability to defend itself has once again been exposed to public attention.

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