Germany prepares huge orders for jets, armored vehicles, sources say

Berlin (Reuters) -Germany, 20 Eurofighter Jet, up to 3,000 boxers armored vehicles and 3,500 Patria Infantry War vehicle, two sources familiar with plans, Reuters told the wave of billions of euros.

Purchases aim to reduce the confidence of Fiedrich Merz’s most powerful traditional army in Europe, to reduce the confidence in an increasingly unpredictable ally and to take more responsibility for European security.

Earlier this year, Merz provided Germany’s parliamentary support to exempt defense expenditures from constitutional protected debt limits and financed the military revision of the military revision.

Germany’s regular defense budget is expected to increase from 2025 to 20 billion euros ($ 95.8 billion) from 2025 to 20 billion.

The sources are expected to be between 4 billion and 5 billion euros, only the Eurofighter order, while the boxer vehicles built by KNDS and Rheinmetall are estimated to be 10 billion euros. Patria vehicles cost about 7 billion euros.

According to sources, the delivery of boxers and Patria platforms are expected in the next 10 years.

The Ministry of Defense also advances more Iris-T air defense system and several hundred Skyranger Drone Defense Platforms Purchasing plans, resources and financial details for these purchases have not yet been concluded.

Although Bloomberg referred to some different figures, he also reported his supply plans.

The Ministry of Defense did not respond immediately to a request for a comment.

Merz promised NATO to welcome the spending criterion to defend 3.5% of GDP until 2029 – far ahead of the alliance members.

However, Germany has more growing. Hours after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the German army chief, saying that Bundeswehr “stopped there with more empty hand”, explained the disappointment of military preparation on the long -standing negligence in his country.

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(Reporting by Markus Wacket; Writing by Sarah Marsh; Editing by Stephen Coates)