Defense News

Germany’s military has received the first IRIS-T SLM air defense system for its own forces after prioritizing the weapon’s production for Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022.

“A new chapter of European air defense is shaping up,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at an inauguration ceremony for the equipment on a military base in Todendorf, northern Germany. “This is, without exaggeration, about maintaining security and peace in Europe,” he added, using the occasion to defend a decision from the summer to deploy American intermediate-range missiles to Germany.

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