Germany’s Scholz pressed by own coalition to provide long-range missiles for Ukraine (www.euractiv.com)

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While France and Britain have passed on their own long-range SCALP/Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, Chancellor Scholz (SPD, S&D) has mystified allies with his persistent reluctance to deliver equivalent German Taurus missiles.

Long-range weapons to strike behind enemy lines are among the most urgently needed weapons, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasised at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) last weekend.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just in case, here's the taurus and it is somehow more able of intelligence attack then those from the GB and the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_KEPD_350

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This sounds like it needs special programming and training to do so. So presumably German specialists would need to program and fire it at specific targets. Maybe that is where the hesitation by Scholz comes from, because then it wouldn't just be a proxy war, but Germans would again be launching weapons into Russia.

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