Israel Netanyahu meets with German defense executives amid talks on Arrow 3 purchase

[Jacop]

At the end of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Berlin, the prime minister meets with almost 30 executives from leading German defense companies.

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu shares with the businesspeople lessons from his experience, and discusses possibilities for cooperation between the defense industries in the two countries.

The two countries are discussing Germany’s desire to purchase Israel’s Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system, which came up in Netanyahu’s meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany announced a 100 billion euro rearmament plan.

Netanyahu meets with German defense executives amid talks on Arrow 3 purchase

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[Manomed The Second]

At the end of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Berlin, the prime minister meets with almost 30 executives from leading German defense companies.

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu shares with the businesspeople lessons from his experience, and discusses possibilities for cooperation between the defense industries in the two countries.

The two countries are discussing Germany’s desire to purchase Israel’s Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system, which came up in Netanyahu’s meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany announced a 100 billion euro rearmament plan.

Netanyahu meets with German defense executives amid talks on Arrow 3 purchase

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Why Isn't germany developing their own systems?

 

[Jacop]

Why Isn't germany developing their own systems?

Although germany had the technical capacity to produce such weapons since World War II, it generally avoided producing them.

 

[Mehmed Ali]

Although germany had the technical capacity to produce such weapons since World War II, it generally avoided producing them.

I agree but on other hand France and Italy who are the members of EU like Germany can produce it as of now . Besides Germany propagate this product to all Europe. If this is not cucking , I don't know what's? The last time I checked it is France who provides the nuclear deterrent for Europe. So money spent for Arrow should go to France. Also it is not just Arrow , many other things.

 

[Jacop]

Germany moves ahead with plans to buy Israel's Arrow-3 missile defence for 4 billion euros​

Germany plans to buy Israel's Arrow-3 missile defence system for almost 4 billion euros ($4.30 billion) in total, and will ask lawmakers to release advance payments of up to 560 million euros next week, according to documents seen by Reuters on Friday.

The Arrow-3 is designed to intercept ballistic missiles outside of the earth's atmosphere.

It is the top layer of Israel's missile defence array, which extends from Iron Dome that intercepts short-range rockets to Arrow-3's long-range missiles that destroy any non-conventional warheads at a safe altitude.

Berlin aims to strike a government-to-government deal with Israel on the purchase of the Arrow-3 system at the end of the year, said the finance ministry's procurement documents that were prepared for parliament.

Germany will lose part or all of its advance payments should the deal fail, according to the papers, as the money would be used to compensate Israel for costs incurred by then.

The German air force is supposed to take delivery of Arrow-3, that will cost about one billion euros more than originally planned, by the fourth quarter of 2025.

Russia's war in Ukraine has laid bare a shortage of ground-based air defence systems such as Raytheon's (RTX.N) Patriot units or the more recently developed IRIS-T in many Western nations.

While Patriot and IRIS-T cover the medium layer of air defence, Arrow-3 - produced by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) (ISRAI.UL) - offers protection for the higher layer.

Germany moves ahead with plans to buy Israel's Arrow-3 missile defence for 4 billion euros

Germany plans to buy Israel's Arrow-3 missile defence system for almost 4 billion euros ($4.30 billion) in total, and will ask lawmakers to release advance payments of up to 560 million euros next week, according to documents seen by Reuters on Friday.

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