The political situation in Germany has changed markedly. Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was convincing victory in the February parliamentary elections. Social Democrats (SPD) Olaf Scholz, who have always been categorically opposed to sending taurus to Ukraine due to the hazard of being drawn in Germany was defeated in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Will Germany shortly send deadly missiles to Ukraine?
The reason for the change in German long-range arms policy to Kiev seems to be Saturday bloody attack by Russia on the Ukrainian city of SumyIn which more than 30 people died.
The leaders of the countries around the planet have condemned this attack, even the United States has spoken, who are trying to negociate a peace agreement between Moscow and Kiev. Donald Trump's peculiar envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said the attack on Sumy was "mistakeful" and that he "crossed all limits of decency."
Trump himself, who had previously promised to end the war in Europe within 24 hours and seems to sympathize with Moscow, moving on threatening Europe, said that the attack on Sumy was "terrible". On the another hand, the U.S. president suggested, as “Kiev Independent” reports, that “he was told (Russians) were wrong”, without further explanation.
Weapons for Zelenski on 1 condition
Merz, the future chancellor, condemned the attack on Suma, stating that it is simply a "serious war crime" and that Kiev needs aid to proceed the war. Germany is ready to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine. However, he suggested that he would be willing to do so in cooperation with European allies.
“He said in an interview with ARD.
“From Berlin with love” and “better late than never”, Forbes writes. The paper recalls that Merz, who "is not as strategically cautious as Scholz", supported the anticipation of handing over rockets as early as the fall of the last year, erstwhile he said he would put Russia on "ultimatum" to halt bombing Ukraine within 24 hours.
If he doesn't agree, Germany should send taurus to destruct the supply lines by which the government harms the civilian population of Ukraine said last October in the Bundestag, “Kiev Independent”.
However, he later corrected his position, stating that he had not set Russia an ultimatum, but simply offered Ukraine approval to supply taurus so that it could influence the course of the war "on the issue of ceasefire".
What are bulls?
According to Deutsche Welle (DW), Taurus maneuvering missiles are 1 of the most powerful weapons in the German army arsenal.
Thanks to a warhead capable of penetrating bunkers, the “Taurus” can be fired from fighters. The scope is 500 km, which is more than the Storm Shadow (250 km) that Ukraine receives from Britain and France, as well as from the American ATACMS (300 km). Greater coverage would let Ukrainian forces to attack targets deep in Russia, behind front lines.
Taurus weighs 1.5 tons, has a maximum diameter of 1 metre, and its turbo-ventilator engine drives it to advanced subsonic speeds – it can decision at the velocity of Mach 0.95. Control is done utilizing GPS and inertial navigation strategy (INS). Most importantly, this projectile has a double warhead weighing 500 kg called MEPHISTO, with a smaller charge smashing the gap in the mark and a larger 1 detonating the mark from the inside.
The rocket besides uses stealth masking technology.
The companies behind Taurus, a German maker of MBDA rockets and Swedish “Saab”, produced only 600 of these rockets for German aviation, writes “Forbes”. As added, until fresh generation rockets of American and German production appear, Taurus will be the only ammunition for the deep strokes of German aviation – a key weapon in a serious air war with a serious enemy.
According to Forbes reports, German leaders allegedly believe that they could quit about 100 maneuvering missiles without compromising their own plans, adding that it is not an insignificant number and that in addition to British and another missiles, Germany could increase the Ukrainian arsenal of this kind by a third.
Ukraine will most likely fire the best German maneuvering missiles from its old russian bombers. Their air force is likely to attach taurus to the moving wings of erstwhile russian Su-24 bombers, which the British and French have already modified to carry the "storm shadow" (or SCAPP), as reported by Forbes.
How will Russia react?
Long-range weapons targeting Russia will surely not be well received by Moscow. Mertz on Sunday not only suggested that he was ready to deliver Taurus rockets to Kiev, but besides suggested that these rockets could be utilized to attack targets specified as the 19-km Crimean bridge, which links continental Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula in 2014 and is considered a symbol of Russian occupation. It is besides an crucial supply way for front forces, and is called Putin's pride.
While America is trying to force the fighting parties to enter a truce, and the attacks proceed despite an agreed ceasefire in the area of energy infrastructure and the Black Sea, Mertz warns that Moscow interprets peace calls as a sign of weakness. He said Putin "will not respond positively to the bids of weakness and peace."
— At 1 point Putin must realize that this war is hopeless, and that means that we must aid Ukraine," said Mertz.
It is not yet known what his coalitions from Scholz's social democrats will say and whether they will support the transportation of Taurus to Kiev.
