The Federal German Government has a request of NATO Partners Lithuania to supply Radpanzern rejected. The Ministry of Defence confirmed a report in the "Welt am Sonntag".
Lithuania feels like the other Baltic States as former Soviet republics from neighboring Russia threatened, especially given Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine.
A ministry spokesman explained on request: "Essentially, we welcome the modernization of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, in see of the enhanced need to have for protection as a NATO member state. We for that reason try to assistance Lithuania inside our implies." In accordance to the newspaper wants to Lithuania change its outdated 113 tank as soon as attainable and by the German Ministry of Defence had proposed a so-referred to as government-to-government transaction by way of a two-digit quantity from Radpanzern of sort "boxer".
Contractor would be performing the federal government, not the manufacturer Kraus-Maffei Wegmann. This could be a time consuming arms export procedures to be averted, the paper wrote. The Bundeswehr has reportedly ordered 272 vehicles, 131 a lot more are but to come.