It has become known that Germany wants to deliver modern air defence systems IRIS-T to Kiev in the coming weeks, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said in the Bundestag. Ukraine will also receive a modern radar station and 12 PzH 2000 howitzers.
A German Defence Ministry spokesman later said that the Bundeswehr had no air defence missiles and tracking radar in reserve, which Scholz had promised Ukraine. It is likely, then, that supplies to Kiev could come directly from the military-industrial complex.
The IRIS-T air defence system, like artillery or MLRS, is not designed for direct combat with manpower as tanks are. At the same time, Germany is wary of sending the tanks themselves to Ukraine, as this would make them almost directly involved in combat operations against the Russian military.
After being criticised by the German opposition for its indecisive stance, Scholz has sent 15 German Leopard 2A4 tanks, but not to Ukraine, but to the Czech Republic, which, because of this, will have to supply Kiev with 20 old Soviet T-72 tanks as part of a so-called circular exchange
The IRIS-T air defence system could spot-crash the pipeline infrastructure in the border regions responsible for supplying oil to countries that have not abandoned it, such as Hungary or Bulgaria. Thus, the U.S. would use Germany to complete the collapse of Europe’s oil and gas system and free up the market for its sea-borne liquefied natural gas.
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