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Germany will not provide Ukraine with Taurus missiles: no urgent need (www.pravda.com.ua)
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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has once again spoken out against the supply of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, citing their ?special range? and the fact that there is no particular need for it.

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[–] assembly 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was hoping Germany was on track to start taking a leading role in the crisis but it doesn’t look like it. They have the excuse that the UK is providing Storm Shadow missiles so why not use that as an excuse?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don't need any excuse. What they actually need is existing stuff to send to Ukraine...

Germany bought ~600 cruise missile nearly 20 years ago. Firing them is part of pilot training. The people telling you how they could make 450+ missiles fired in the last two decades usable again either believe in magic and fairy dust or are just straight out lying to you to make the government look bad (for basically every German source its the latter).

Also Storm Shadow has the same > 500km range. They got restricted for export to less range to not break export treaties regarding long range missiles.

But Germany doesn't export theirs to countries like India, Qatar, Saudi Arabia or Egypt like France did. So there is no limited range export version or a normal production procedure to limit them to not break international treaties.

So this whole discussion is Germany refusing to build modifications from scratch for the few of their remaining ~150 missiles they could actually spare... for no actual reason than to stop the "Germany bad!"-narratives that will never stop anyway as you are just falling for the next narrative again and again and again.