Posted on 05/11/2015 6:26:52 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
May 11 Israel bought four German-made corvette warships on Monday to help secure its Mediterranean gas rigs, with Berlin heavily subsidizing the deal, Israel's Defence Ministry said on Monday.
The ships, worth 430 million euros ($480 million), will be built by Thyssen Krupp and delivered within five years, providing significantly more fire power to Israel's navy.
The German government will pay 115 million euros towards the cost. As part of its atonement for the Nazi Holocaust, Germany is committed to Israel's security and has often helped pay in the past for the cost of military equipment such as submarines.
Thyssen Krupp also committed to buy 700 million shekels ($181 million) worth of Israeli goods under the contract.
"The deal signed today is an event of the utmost significance that dramatically upgrades the navy's capabilities of defending the State of Israel's strategic sites in the gas realm," Defence Ministry director-general Dan Harel said.
Israel's economy would also be buoyed, he added.
Israel has huge and mostly untapped gas fields that cover some 23,000 square km (9,000 square miles) of sea -- more than Israel's territory on land.
Israeli planners see possible sea-borne or rocket threats to gas facilities from Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, making expanding the naval presence a priority for them.
Israel's navy chief, Admiral Ram Rotberg, said in a separate statement that the corvettes would be classed as "Saar 6" missile boats -- suggesting a major improvement in capabilities.
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You know, the Germans always make good stuff.
As part of its atonement for the Nazi Holocaust, Germany is committed to Israel’s security and has often helped pay in the past for the cost of military equipment such as submarines///
This is as it should be, but when i mentioned that Abe of Japan should just Apologize to Korea and China, i got destroyed with comments like “he wasn’t even alive then” and “this nonsense of holding onto the past is absurd” etc.
God only knows how many hundreds of billions in todays dollars they would have to give those countries for the horrors inflicted.
Because that’s racis?
The INS Shamwow?
For mopping up islamists ...
lol
Germans doing the work that the Obamanites won’t do (anymore).
The former U.S. would support Israel, blindfolded.
I don’t think on a conscious level.
I wonder why those countries never went before then UN demanding compensation.
Good grief, what the Japanese did to those countries were the stuff of nightmares. I’ve read some crazy stories. And it was on a massive scale.
cant even print here some of the things they did. geez.
They have made strides in dealing with their past, (something the Japs, oops, I mean Japanese have yet to do), yet, the Liberal Germans always counter balance aid to Israel by bringing in the poor, little diddums Paleostinians.
They chastise Israel regarding the Palis but sell Israel advanced systems.
very odd. I was thinking the same thing. Is the economic help a real act of conscience or a show for the world? they would vote for a 2 state solution in a minute in the UN
Germany has a strong interest in those oilfields as a non Russian source of energy for Germany.
Germany has a strong interest in those gas rigs as a non Russian source of energy for Germany.
The Nazis are (almost) all dead.
The slaveholders of the US are all dead.
Yet the demands for "reparations" continue.
I wonder if Israel would be interested in a couple of French warships cheap - the ones built for Russia?
Wait, what?
The Saar 6 vessels would be significantly larger, with twice the operational range of the current Saar 5 class.
So Japan should be pouring money into Red China and NK?
South Korea isn’t either of those. If you want to decide whether payments to the victims should be based on their government.
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