Germany's new frigate F125 weak in defences, unfit for sea.

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http://archive.is/BOlrf

Nobody talks of the Airbus A400M anymore. None of the remaining 4 Uboats is operational, since many months. Air transports repeatedly brake down even when transporting the defence ministress to a diplomatic visit. Major shares of the tank and helcopter fleet (if one dares to call those dwarf numbers a "fleet") are nonoperational. Berlin Airport is 10 years behind schedule, unclear whether it will ever opened at all or will be scrapped. Major train station in Stuttgart also many years behind schedule. Delivery of new infantry fighting vehicles delayed due to concerns its atmospshere could harm amniotic fluid of pregnant female - ehem, soldiers. German drones don't fly, helicopters loose rotorblades, and repairs and fixes mean to change numbers in printed papers so to cover the techncial deficits that were found during tests before. Over half of the volunteer recruits, of which there are too few, leave entry trainiggn before week 6.

The Bundeswehr as a leading force in Easteurope or the Baltic?

Forget it. And very quickly. These armed forces are a bad joke. Their status is symptomatic for the structural decline of Germany in general, its loss of key competences and abilities, both in the technical and adminstrative field. Nobody needs to be worried of the Bundeswehr as a military opponent. Especially not the Russians.

A Kindergarten.

Elections are ago since - how many months now? And still the old government is in power. And is aiming at staying in power in a renewal of this great coalition that was voted out and lost so many voters. Merkel said of so many of her opinion pieces that they are "without alternative", she now seems to think that includes herself personally as well. Seems people cannot even vote to get rid of these people anymore. They stick with you, like some super-glue.

”There’s a whole generation of German engineers who haven’t worked on a major defense project,” said Mr. Mölling, the defense expert. “It’s not that they lost this skill; they never learned it.”
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Kiel-based naval engineer Lothar Dannenberg, who wasn’t involved directly in the frigate project, blamed its failures largely on what he said was the incompetence of the procurement office. “We were left shaking our heads,” he said.

Its symptomatic for whole Germany, on every level.

And still there is this belief, this unspoken expectation that the world just cant wait to follow German moral examples.

How did I came to this?
https://translate.google.de/translat...%2F&edit-text=

https://unbesorgt.de/die-bundeswehr-...armee-zu-sein/