cross-posted from : https://sh.itjust.works/post/53141995
Germany back in 2023 signed a contract with Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for supplying Arrow 3 missile defense systems worth $3.5 billion. Already on December 1, 2026, at an airbase near Annaburg city in Saxony-Anhalt, the system was deployed and reached initial combat readiness.
However, it turned out that two days before official deployment, three unknown drones flew over this system. Moreover, Defense Romania noted that they flew at approximately 100 meters altitude directly over the radar station from Arrow 3 composition.
G27P assault rifles were used for this, equipped with Israeli Smash X4 smart sights, which have recently been actively promoted as a anti-drone solution. However, they failed to shoot down the unmanned aircraft, which then disappeared from the scene.
Later, German counterintelligence and military police classified this incident as an act of deliberate espionage. Defense Express adds that despite all importance of this system which, besides costing over $3.5 billion, is nearly Europe’s only defense against russian Oreshnik and intercontinental ballistic missiles Germany couldn’t protect it from three drones flying directly over it.
What couldn’t Europe do? They are easily ⅔ of NATO in equipment and soldiers. What the US is bringing is mostly the logistics for force projection over-seas. And they increase the number of nukes from enough to destroy the world a few times to a hundred times. Which is totally irrelevant for Europe defending against a country in Europe (that’s where the relevant parts of Russia are) on European soil.
People have spend to much time soaking up US propaganda about how they are all paying for Europe’s defense. Just the non-US part of NATO is still on a completely different level than Russia. And the few categories where they can somewhat compete still requires to value every single piece of ancient ex-soviet equipment as equal to modern western stuff. They also spend (in today’s war time conditions) a fraction of Europe’s 2020s defense budget.
So an actual war with Europe instead of screaming Russian propagandists telling funny fairy tales about being “at war with NATO” for years now is consequence enough.