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| Middle East |
| Air-defensive missiles for Israel |
| 2003-01-29 |
| German Patriot air-defence missiles sought by Israel are being loaded on board ship at the German harbour of Nordenham. A Bundeswehr spokesman said the 128 missiles and associated components would probably arrive in Israel in two weeks time. Israel requested the Patriots last year to protect it against potential attacks by Iraq, which during the 1991 Gulf war, fired Scuds. Germany's government is providing the missiles on loan for two years. Two weeks, that's about right. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 Back in 1985, the then West German MOD spent a pretty sum of money at the US Army's missile development command, Huntsville, AL, for a study on employing the Patriot anti-aircraft missile as an anti-theater ballistic missile system. With funding secured by then Indiana Senator Quayle, the US Army and the West German governments then funded the developement of what you see today as the Patriot in the anti-missile role. |
| Posted by: Don 2003-01-29 16:49:42 |
| #1 What is Germany doing with Patriot missiles? If they are unwilling to get involved in Iraq, then there isn't any reason for anyone to attack them, no? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-01-29 13:54:06 |