The astonished public is saddled with additional costs of around four billion euros, for which they receive absolutely nothing in terms of defense preparedness. The German Navy still has to be happy about the project being cancelled. Because instead of empty high-tech promises, you can now get an average frigate off the shelf.
The order to the Dutch and the contribution of the German shipyards
Hopefully. Because the new shipyards are ultimately the old ones, which have been selling the naval forces unsuitable stabilization frigates or overpriced broken-down corvettes for years. The fact that the F126 frigate was to be built by a Dutch company did not exactly encourage the German subcontractors to make the project a success.
For this reason alone, Boris Pistorius is of course not solely to blame for the failure of the next arms project. But he is not innocent of the sinking of the frigate in his third year in office. Pistorius began reforming the armaments sector far too late and invested money in ailing projects for far too long. This also applies to other projects, such as the mega-project Digitalization of the Land Forces. So far, 20 billion has not even been enough to establish a functioning connection between four tanks.
Failure is luxurious for a minister when, thanks to an infinite overdraft from the citizens, he can simply order the same type of ship again for one and a half times the price, or another fighter jet project, or another tank. The area exemption from the debt brake, intended to quickly re-equip the Bundeswehr, obviously tempts waste of any kind.
