By May this year, the total number of air/naval equipment F-35A/B fighter jets in nine countries exceeded 820 (more than 860 in October), and Luftwaffe will win the first F-35A as early as the first half of next year.
German Ministry of Defense 14 officially announced the purchase of 35 F-35A fighter to replace the soon-to-be-decommissioned "Storm" fighter to perform the nuclear strike mission.
In fact, the news of the purchase of F-35A was when the Russian-Ukraine War broke out in March this year. The German Ministry of Defense applied to the United States for purchase, and the US Department of Defense approved it in just one week. The evaluation time was surprisingly short, and in the past it was a month or two.
MGM-52C "Spear" short-range ballistic missile was deployed in West Germany during the peak period of the Cold War in , with a total of 300 to 400.
The German Ministry of Defense said that the purchase of F-35A was to undertake the nuclear strike mission. So where did Germany get the nuclear weapon ? Of course it was the US military stationed in Germany! During the Cold War, West Germany and East Germany were the frontlines of the military confrontation between the two major military groups in the East and the West. East Germany had 300,000 most elite Soviet troops, commonly known as the "Western Cluster". The military bases accounted for one-tenth of the land area of East Germany. The number of tanks, armored vehicles and artillery and / rocket launchers exceeded 4,000 sets (the East German army also had 3,500 sets), and the number of combat aircraft of the Soviet/East German People's Army also exceeded 1,300. Faced with such a huge military force, West Germany expanded its troops to 500,000, and the number of US troops stationed in Germany was 100,000 at its peak. The British army has 10,000... However, NATO believes that this is not enough to resist the attack of Warsaw Pact . If necessary, nuclear weapons must be used to contain it. Therefore, since the early 1960s, the US military has transported tactical nuclear weapon to West Germany. The most commonly used are "Pershing-1", "Spear" short-range ballistic missiles and 155mm/203mm nuclear shells. The Soviet Union also used nuclear warheads "Scud B" and SS-21 "Scarab" short-range ballistic missiles and 152mm/203mm nuclear shells to deal with it.
has tactical nuclear weapons on land. In the Air Force, the United States developed the B-61 nuclear bomb in the 1960s. Because the aircraft has a large combat radius and higher flexibility, in order to enable countries with strong military strength in the NATO group to mount this type of nuclear bomb , it has always been a non-guided free-fall bomb, which does not require the fighter bomber ammunition management system to identify it. This not only greatly expands the range of models and reduces the mounting time. Therefore, the fighter and fighter bombers developed by the US Air Force in Europe and other NATO countries could mount the B-61 nuclear bomb.
In the 1960s and 170s, almost all the fighter aircraft equipped by the German Air Force were made in the US, such as: F-4 series and F104 series... Although Germany had suppressed military manufacturing after World War II , it also wanted to improve its aviation industry, so it jointly developed the "Storm Wind" fighter bomber with the United Kingdom. These aircraft were of the same level as F-4 fighter jets, but their ground attack capabilities were strengthened. Moreover, due to technical limitations in the 1970s, it was difficult to take into account both air combat and ground attacks. Therefore, the "Storm Wind" fighter bomber was used as tactical bombers in the UK and Germany, and Germany used it to carry B-61 nuclear bombs. The built-in ammunition compartment of
F-35A can carry 2 2000-pound bombs , which means it can also carry two B-61s.
By the early 1990s, with the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War, Germany became the country with the strongest economic strength in Europe. From the governments of Kohl, Schroeder and Merkel, it began to build the EU with Germany as the core. Due to the lack of great threats in the military, the national defense budget was greatly reduced, and it did not participate in the United States' joint development of F-35. Although the United States was very unhappy at the time, it did not care much about this matter, because the United States knew that Germany was far inferior in both military strength and military industrial capabilities, and when it encountered threats in the future, it would still require the United States to help.
After the end of the Cold War, Germany did not think about how to move forward in the future. Although it did not participate in the F-35 project, it has accumulated certain design experience in the development of the "Typhoon" fighter in Europe. In addition, it has accumulated process experience in the long-term participation in the manufacturing of " Airbus " and plans to develop the "sixth generation aircraft" with France. This not only helps to improve the industrial level, but also greatly increases employment. However, the problem is that there is a lack of experience and funds. The so-called 6th generation aircraft project has been verbally, and the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war also made Germany frightened! In the past, there were too many factors that Europe had been peaceful for a long time and it was very dangerous to continue to lose its military equipment. The sixth-generation aircraft was far away. It would be better to simply buy the ready-made F-35...
Now, looking at the entire European country, all aspects are occupied by "white left-wing" people. The United States has also seen this point and is not in a hurry to achieve success. Instead, it gradually controls Europeans in terms of ideology and creates a crisis to harvest Europe!
Germany's initial uninvolved life and death to buying the F-35 quickly shows that a country must be independent, but the first thing it needs is national defense independence. How can it be called sovereign and independent if national defense is not autonomous?
