Thousands of Tanks for Pistorius: Billion-Paper to Merz's Bundeswehr Plans Leaks Through

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Defence Minister Pistorius wants to confront young Germans more strongly with the Bundeswehr in the future – and make the force more attractive. SPIEGEL editor Paul-Anton Krüger explains the differences to the old conscription.

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The war in Ukraine shows that tanks now play only a minor role in the battlefields. Nevertheless, the German federal government wants to take into its own hands an enormous amount of money to feed the armaments industry with thousands of tanks with a huge amount of tax money. The German Bundeswehr currently has about 300 Leopard 2 battle tanks. Of these, about 130 are currently ready for use. In addition, there are about 700 armored tanks (marte…

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Defense Minister Pistorius wants to massively increase the number of reservists, but applicants have to accept long waiting times.

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The Bundeswehr needs personnel and material. A pierced paper shows that Germany is probably planning billions of orders for thousands of tanks.

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The signs in Germany are on armament. Above all, military production is boosted. But what about health care?

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The President of the Bundeswehr Procurement Office, Annette Lehnigk-Emden, sees her agency in a "race against time" given the tensions with Russia. "We have received a requirement from the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr that the Bundeswehr must be fully equipped for national and alliance defense by 2029," Lehnigk-Emden told the newspapers of the Funke Media Group (Saturday editions). "It doesn't have to come to that point that Russia attack…