Report - Costs for Further Frigate Project of the Bundeswehr Apparently Run Out of Control
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Another armament project of the Bundeswehr is apparently on the tip because of cost increases.
The German Navy is to be equipped with eight new anti-aircraft frigates in the course of the turn of time. However, the retrofitting consumes many billions of euros more than previously planned. One component is to be particularly responsible for this.
Another major armament project by the Bundeswehr has shown that the costs are running out of control. The reason for the increased costs is above all the prices for the state-of-the-art Aegis weapon systems from the USA, the report says.
The German Navy is facing a billion-dollar act of force: the planned F127 frigates could be significantly more expensive than expected. At the same time, there is growing doubt in Berlin as to whether arms planning follows the right priorities.
The program for the new F127 anti-air frigates of the Deutsche Marine could reach a value beyond 40 billion euros for eight units, with an extremely meaningful increase regarding the approximately 26 billion euros that had been indicated in 2025. To report it is the Spiegel, taken from the German press and in particular from Welt, according to which the most recent estimates would bring the total cost of the program to beyond five billion euros …
Only in June Boris Pistorius pulls the emergency brake on a billion-dollar naval project. Now the price for Germany's most important new anti-aircraft ships threatens to run away – a US component drives the bill. This post New estimate for F127 project Pistorius's new frigates also run out of hand was published on Junge Freiheit.
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