Germany and the United Kingdom want to develop a long -range striking weapons system together of more than 2,000 km, the first realization of its recent defense agreement to deal with the Russian threat.
They met on Thursday in Berlin, the defense ministers of the two countries “agreed to start working together in the development of a new European typification of in -depth precision, with a reach of more than 2,000 kilometers,” British Minister John Healey said. This range is much higher than that of the Franco-British cruise missile storm.
This project, without a precise calendar, is the first concretization of the so -called “Trinity House” agreement, the first of this type between the two countries, signed in October 2024. But it is placed “as part of the European approach on long -range strikes” (in the English Elsa, for the long -standing strike approach), the German minister Boris Pistorius recalled.
Germany “British Sting Ray” British Torpedoes “
Initiative launched by France, Germany, Italy and Poland, Elsa aims at the development and production of long -ranking weapons in a context of growing tensions with Russia. This “has the advantage of allowing other partners to join our initiative and take advantage of synergies,” said Boris Pistorius.
The “Trinity House” agreement establishes that the two armies will join more frequently to strengthen the NATO eastern flank. The text stipulates that the German P8 aircraft, the maritime patrol planes used in particular for anti -submarine control, will come from a Scottish base to contribute to the protection of the North Atlantic.
To do this, Germany will buy British torpedoes Sting Ray, “said Boris Pistorius. Twice already, German teams have used British P-8 to “support the NATO Baltic Sentinel,” said a joint statement. And a British P-8 will soon use a German naval air base during a stop, specify the text.
London and Berlin are the two main European countries that provide military aid in kyiv since the beginning of the war in February 2022. The United Kingdom significantly provided long -range missiles of Ukraine, which Germany was rejected under the mandate of the previous Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz. The new Friedrich Merz Chancellor said he was open to this possibility, in conditions.
Source: BFM TV
