and that's not counting their current inventory that's red flagged InOp...The country that pioneered armored warfare and close air support can now no longer do either.
I guess seven decades of letting someone else defend you has an impact.
The US Navy wasn’t available for comment.
Look for the union label...................
I suspect with the Germans, if things were not check-list perfect, they needed “improvement,” and these were the kind of things our military would just live with....
I know a guy in tank training here in the USA; a substantial number of their tanks don’t run at all. I recall a recruitment run by the Marine Corps. to my technical college. They flew in a helicopter for us to admire. One of the seniors—who was a certified helicopter mechanic by then, said after looking at it, the Corps’ copter had so many leaks and problems, it shouldn’t of been allowed to fly....but, they just lived with it (even for recruitment!).
I think there’s a lot of imperfections in our military....that are just lived with, which probably a German mentality won’t permit.
They forgot how to build reliable cars, why wouldn’t armaments follow?
German engineering, Turkish manufacturing.
The German armed forces are a complete joke. None of their U-boats are seaworthy. Over half their tanks and a much much higher percentage of their fighter aircraft are not fit for action. They refuse to spend a reasonable amount for their own defense and the German armed forces have not seen any real action since 1945. The country has no spine. At all. They are utterly worthless as “allies” (which of course, they’re not).
and that's not counting their current inventory that's red flagged InOp...