How Germany satisfies the US by buying Boeing planes

1 July 20213 years ago babelfish

The contract between Germany and Boeing for the purchase of five P-8 Poseidon aircraft is worth 1.1 billion. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

As reported by the Reuters news agency , Germany has signed a contract with the United States to purchase five Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.

The stipulated contract is around 1.1 billion euros.

WHAT THE CONTRACT WILL BE FOR

On the one hand, the purchase will serve to maintain an efficient long-range maritime reconnaissance capability according to statements by the German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, and on the other hand it will serve to replace the Lockheed P-3C Orion aircraft.

DOES NORTH STREAM 2 HAPPEN?

Regardless of the strictly technical aspects – certainly important and relevant -, it is conceivable that a purchase of this kind could have induced the United States to take a softer attitude towards Nord Stream 2 .

THE MILITARY STRENGTHENING OF GERMANY

Secondly, a purchase of this nature is also part of Germany's strengthening of the military device, as also demonstrated by the fact that in November 2020 the German Parliament approved the purchase of 38 Eurofighters for a total of € 5.4 billion. whose relevance for German air defense is of the highest value and significance as these represent the spearhead of German air power.

THE CYBER QUESTION

But the strengthening of air power is another thing than the cyber one, which was in fact the subject of a real cyber-attack by a group of Russian hackers known as Fancy Lazarus , according to the German newspaper Bild .

According to the newspaper, the attack would have hit Germany's banking system and would be the inevitable retaliation for EU sanctions against Russia.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/germania-boeing-acquisto-stati-uniti/ on Thu, 01 Jul 2021 13:13:15 +0000.