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Germany’s Ukraine air defense initiative falls flat

Berlin promised to help Ukraine source crucial air defenses, but the reality has been disappointing.

Germany responded to Ukraine’s call for more air defenses by promising to send some of its own systems and marshalling help from other allies — but almost no one else is following Berlin’s lead.

Berlin has so far pledged three of its 11 U.S.-made Patriot batteries along with over 50 Gepard shorter-range air defense systems and air-to-air missiles, able to counter the hail of ballistic missiles, bombs and drones hammering Ukraine’s cities and critical infrastructure.

For weeks, senior German politicians — principally Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius — have been leaning on allies to follow through on their commitments to gift Patriot air and missile defense batteries to Ukraine.

DarkThoughts ,

Germany: Alright, who will join us in helping Ukraine's air defense? :D
Rest of the West: crickets

If it weren't so serious, it would be almost comical. Especially after such a long time of shitting on Germany, often through disinformation or overblown shit. Now almost everyone else falls flat in their assistance. Whole bunch of hypocrites.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Sending more is an “absolute priority,” Baerbock said during a trip to Kyiv on Tuesday, where she said Berlin had helped raised €1 billion to support Ukraine’s aerial protection.

While the German initiative also covers alternatives such as SAMP/T, NASAMS, HAWK, IRIS-T or S-300 air defense systems, it’s the Raytheon-developed Patriots that are most effective against attacks.

“There is no European leadership and no unity between the main actors,” said Nico Lange, a former chief of staff at Germany’s defense ministry and now a fellow at think tank CEPA.

One of the reasons for the reluctance to send Patriots is that they are expensive — around $1 billion per unit — and each interceptor missile it fires costs millions.

What’s more, countries aren’t willing to accept the blow to their own air defenses necessary to make good on deliveries to Ukraine, said Fabian Hoffmann, a researcher working on missile technology at the University of Oslo.

Poland, a critical conduit for arms heading to Ukraine, has also said no to donating one of its units as Prime Minister Donald Tusk insists there isn’t a back-up.

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