According to a report in “Bild”, the German Ministry of Defense was severely criticized after reports revealed that it spent approximately 900 million euros on drone programs without a competitive tender – and while failing operational tests. At the heart of the affair are claims that the ministry approved expensive systems with poor performance “in a blind flight”. Opposition members are demanding an investigation, claiming that the defense minister’s team Boris Pistorius Ignore expert warnings.
As I recall, Chancellor of Germany Friedrich March Proposed a large-scale plan to upgrade the German army, with the intention of making it the strongest army in Europe, which included a 39-page internal document detailing planned purchases worth about 377 billion euros – about 320 new projects, most of them in local industry, with 178 already with an identified contractor.
It was also reported that Rheinmetall is the big winner (about 88 billion euros in various tenders); In air and air defense chapters, IRIS-T and Skyranger stand out; UAVs (Heron TP, LUNA NG) and space programs for over 14 billion euros are also central.