Denmark will acquire short -range anti -aircraft defense systems of arms manufacturers in France, Germany and Norway to protect their civilians and military facilities, the Ministry of Defense announced Tuesday.
The Scandinavian country will pay more than six billion crowns (804 million euros) to buy this team from the German defense Diehl and France MBDA, and will rent them to the Norwegian Kongsberg. The antialerial defense systems will be placed in strategic places in the country, Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulen told the press.
“Denmark needs to quickly acquire a defense system capable of defending the civilian population, military objectives and essential infrastructure in case of aerial threat,” the ministry said in a statement. “The systems will gradually operate from the end of 2025 to the beginning of 2027,” said the minister.
“Buy, buy, buy”
Citing a greater threat of Russia, the prime minister, Put Frederiksen, said in February that Denmark would assign additional 50 billion (around 6 billion euros) to defense expenses in the next two years, urging the army to “buy, buy, buy.”
Denmark had put his dehawk air defense system out of service twenty years ago, after the collapse of the Soviet Union that had led to a reorientation of the military resources of the country of territorial defense towards international operations.
Source: BFM TV
