10.01.2021, 16:26
Meldung von November, wonach Deutschland seinen Status bzgl. des Twister-Projektes von Ende 2019 im Pesco (Permanent Structured Cooperation der EU - man nennt es auch das "militärische Schengen") als Beobachter abändert zu einem Teilhaber an diesem Projekt. Es handelt sich um ein Projekt, dass die Abwehr von Hyperschallflugkörpern zum Sinn hat. Ursprünglich war das Projekt von Frankreich, Finnland, Italien und den Niederlanden angestoßen worden. Berlin war zunächst zurückhaltend, ob man nun einsteigen soll oder nicht. Nun also doch...
Schneemann.
Zitat:Germany joins nascent European push to shoot down hypersonic missileshttps://www.defensenews.com/global/europ...-missiles/
COLOGNE, Germany — Germany has joined a European Union-endorsed project aimed at intercepting a new generation of hypersonic missiles too fast for existing defensive systems.
Nudged by France, Berlin changed its status from an observer nation to a participant country in the so-called TWISTER effort on Oct. 24, a Defence Ministry spokesman confirmed to Defense News. The acronym is short for Timely Warning and Interception with Space-Based Theater Surveillance. EU officials included the effort in the November 2019 roster of projects under the bloc’s Permanent Structure Cooperation, or PESCO, scheme.
The project aims to field a space-based, early-warning sensor network and an interceptor moving at a velocity of more than Mach 5 at an altitude up to 100 kilometers sometime around 2030. That’s according to missile-maker MBDA, which has claimed the interceptor portion of the plan as a pet project.
The objectives of TWISTER “align with German interests,” the Defence Ministry spokesman said. Officials hope that a complementary research effort under the auspices of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme could help boost the project, he added. The spokesman declined to provide details. [...] News that Germany is joining plans on the air defense project comes at a time when the fate of the another supposed next-generation weapon, dubbed TLVS, hangs in the balance. According to a spokeswoman, Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is expected to decide by the end of the year whether to proceed with the project or drop it.
Schneemann.