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Sebastian Sprenger

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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Sebastian Sprenger

    Germany wants to manufacture American PAC-3 interceptors to help meet global demand (opens the original)

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    COLOGNE, Germany — German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has lobbied U.S. defense leaders to allow the production of PAC-3 MSE interceptor missiles in Germany, arguing an additional production site would help alleviate a glaring shortfall in the global supply chain for the vital air-defense weapons. Pistorius’ comments in Berlin on Wednesday offer more details about an agreement struck with his U.S. counterpart, Pete Hegseth, at the Pentagon last week. The German defense minister said the

  2. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Sebastian Sprenger

    Germany, US to expand shared production of Patriot interceptors, strike missiles (opens the original)

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    COLOGNE, Germany — The defense leaders of Germany and the United States have signed an agreement positioning Germany as an additional production hub where workers can make scarce munitions for American weapons if stateside U.S. firms are overwhelmed by demand. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the pact on Tuesday during a visit by Pistorius to the Pentagon. It comes as German officials, in particular, are looking to secure practical touch

  3. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Sebastian Sprenger

    With no Iran war end in sight, Germany pulls back two navy ships eyed for Hormuz mission (opens the original)

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    COLOGNE, Germany — The German government is pulling back two navy ships from the Gulf of Aden sent there weeks ago on stand-by to support an eventual post-war Strait of Hormuz security mission, as hope is fading in Berlin that the conflict in Iran will end anytime soon. Defense leaders ordered the mine hunter Fulda and the support vessel Mosel to redeploy from Djibouti, a European and international naval hub at the southern mouth of the Red Sea, to the eastern Mediterranean, the Ministry of De

  4. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Sebastian Sprenger

    Germany to study French cooperation offer on SAMP/T air-defense system (opens the original)

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    COLOGNE, Germany — German government leaders will study an offer by French President Emmanuel Macron to cooperate on the French-Italian SAMP/T air defense system, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius confirmed on Tuesday. Pistorius’ comments amount to the first official response to a proposal by Macron at a July 17 bilateral ministerial summit to include Germany in the co-production of Europe’s only locally made long-range air defense system and alternative to the Patriot. The German de

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