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If this is true (I have no clue) then it might be the reason why Scholz is against delivering the Taurus - and maybe he is even right. I would hate to admit that he is right on anything, but if for once it would be so - then it would be so.

[Focus] The "Taurus" has the heaviest warhead among the western systems of the same category and it also has the greater thrust. This gives it unparalleled agility in the final attack phase and enormous effectiveness even against hardened targets such as bunkers. Alternatively, it can also be used to great effect against area targets such as airfields.

Its mission data is loaded before the mission or even needs to be updated during the approach to the target. Planning and mission management is highly complex and crucial for an optimal approach route and attack profile. This requires specialists with many years of training. The Chancellor is right. German soldiers would have to lead the Ukraine either on the ground or rather from a distance - with a lot of additional effort - in the attack operations and also provide and continuously update top secret data libraries with electronic identifiers of enemy defense systems and much more.

This is precisely where Chancellor Scholz's argument comes in, who - unlike England or France - deliberately does not want any German soldiers to be involved in planning or even fighting Russian targets, either on the ground in Ukraine or from Germany. Scholz said: "This clarity is necessary. I am surprised that some people ... don't even think about whether what we are doing could result in involvement in war, so to speak."

If "Taurus" systems were to be delivered to Ukraine, this system would first have to be technically integrated. This would take around a year, even if Ukraine were to use western F-16 fighter jets for this purpose. In view of the limited German stocks of the cruise missile, it should be borne in mind that production cannot be resumed for around a year due to the current long-term supply bottlenecks for some of the electronics and the special metal for the hardened warhead.
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I again refer to Colonel'S Reisner'S criticism of focussing so exclusively on the Taurus. What Ukraine needs before anything else currently, is 155mm ammo and air defence ammo. But the Ukrainian calculation when insisting on taurus might be right this: to bring Germany and with it: NATO, into the war.