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Germany is planning to re-100 tank to service
04/11/2015 11:15
Tomorrow Press / Baghdad: Germany plans to re-use 100 tanks, was taken out of service, in the German army, move interpreted as a broad range came in response to increased tension with Russia because of the Ukrainian crisis.
The tanks were sold to industrial enterprises as part of a reduction in defense spending program after the Cold War.
The German Defense Ministry it will spend 22 million euros (24 million dollars) for increasing the number of its tanks to tank 328.
Officials have been approved in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in February to form a rapid reaction force in response to the challenges posed by the Ukrainian crisis and Islamic extremism that.
The NATO defense ministers also agreed to more than double the size of the quick reaction force for the Alliance.
And look at this move as a sign that NATO is Russia's control of the Crimea and send its military forces in the east of Ukraine as more of a temporary crisis.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Defence German Jens Wlosdorf report published in "Der Spiegel" magazine German indicates that "will be the purchase of 100 combat tank of the type (Fahd 2) of the defense industry enterprises, which hold these tanks in its stores."
The spokesman said "Germany has developed to ensure the deployment of troops equipped with the right equipment in the right place and in a short period of time, new targets to achieve flexibility in the rapid response times."
And will begin the process of updating these tanks in 2017.
The move comes as the opposite of the decision taken by Germany four years ago, reducing the number of German tanks from 350 to 225 tanks.
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