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Ministry stops arms project
As of June 16, 2020 1:38 p.m.
The Department of Defense cancels the modernization of the Navy's maritime patrols.
The reason: technical risks and significant cost increases.
Hundreds of millions of euros have already been invested.
By Christoph Prössl, NDR
Yesterday the "Jester" maritime surveillance aircraft landed at the Bundeswehr site in Nordholz in Lower Saxony.
End of a long assignment abroad in the Horn of Africa.
There, the crew of the P-3C Orion aircraft helped monitor the maritime area.
Tracking pirates, securing merchant ships, and delivering relief supplies to Somalia
as part of the World Food Program was the order of the EU Atalanta mission.
The Navy's maritime patrols are important, especially since not many nations have this ability.
But the machines could soon be dispatched much less often than ever.
The Ministry of Defense announced that it would cancel the modernization.
In a letter to the members of the Committee on Budgets, which is available from NDR Info ,
it says: "The prevailing material commitment, which has been significantly reduced for many years,
results in permanent operational-related restrictions with an uncertain project outcome."
Work not yet completed
By 2023, the Navy's eight planes were to be modernized.
In 2004 the Bundeswehr took over the used aircraft from the Dutch army.
For the repair and upgrade, initially 500 million euros were estimated, later another 340 million euros.
Airbus took over the work on the Lockheed aircraft and renewed wings and retrofitted electronics.
However, work on all of the aircraft has not yet been completed.
The P-3C Orion should be in use until 2035,
from then on a new sea reconnaissance aircraft should be introduced.
But now it is clear: the modernization was associated with "technical risks",
it took longer and the costs continued to rise, as the letter says.
Criticism from the Federal Audit Office
The Federal Audit Office had already examined the modernization of the maritime surveillance and formulated harsh criticism.
The auditors complained that the ministry had not defined any criteria for the termination.
Other armaments projects have also shown in the past that new shortcomings were identified during the work,
the industry received new orders and projects were delayed and became increasingly expensive.
In the letter from the Ministry to the members of the Defense Committee,
the Bundeswehr was said to be conducting a "market review".
So it is checked which aircraft have already been developed and could be bought.
The ministry's letter mentions two Airbus and Boeing models, among others.
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Augen Gerade Aus atAfter several years of attempts to modernize the aged P-3C Orion maritime reconnaissance aircraft and rising costs,
the Ministry of Defense has stopped the ongoing modernization of the aircraft.
Until the development of a new system in 2035,
another aircraft will be sought as a temporary solution.
The Ministry confirmed a corresponding report by the NDR on (today) Tuesday .
The modernization of the machines ordered in 2015 will be ended prematurely, said a spokeswoman.
Only two of the aircraft, on which the so-called re-winging has already been completed, should still be completed.
The Navy had bought eight used P-3C models from the Netherlands.
Serious problems already emerged during the maintenance measures.
A fundamental modernization was commissioned five years ago, but it was partly delayed by problems in the industry .
After a plane was recently damaged during refueling,
the Bundeswehr still has seven models.
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