Great Britain and Germans join the forces of billions in jet and military equipment

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On Thursday, the United Kingdom and Germans vow more precisely to cooperate together with a weapon, including typhoon jets, in the contract that claims from Downing Street can unlock “billions of pounds of additional defense exports”.

The export of the common defense set has been a source of tension between two countries for years, and Germany has exercised their right to block sales in countries such as Türkiye and Saudi Arabia.

Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will sign a broadly extensive treaty in London, including a commitment to continue joint export campaigns for jointly produced military equipment.

“Leaders will present a new agreement on increasing world defense exports in Great Britain.

British officials said that in the future the Germans will be more open to the sale of jointly produced equipment, such as eurofighter, Airbus A400M, military transport aircraft and boxer armored vehicles for some regimes.

The German official said that the text of the treaty emphasized “the importance of having a reliable program in relation to transfers and exports” of defense -related products.

Starmer said that the treaty, which he would also see Germany Change your recipes to facilitate the fight against people of smugglers carrying people towards the coast of the channel in France, “they would bring Great Britain and Germany.”

The previous German government, a three -sided coalition, which included the green, blocked the sale of distributors to Ankara after Turkey announced its interest in buying them in 2022, citing concerns about political rights and man.

On Wednesday, the court in Turkey sentenced the greatest political rival to the president of Repa Tayyip Erdoğan, the mayor of the score of ̇moğlu, for a year and eight months in prison.

In 2024, Germany He raised a long -term opposition For the sale of the Saudi Arabia aircraft.

The new German government, led by conservative Christian Democrats with social democrats as their younger partner, promised a pragmatic approach to weapon exports, because it significantly increases defense expenditure.

Their coalition agreement includes a commitment to adapt the sale of weapons “more precisely with our interests in foreign, economic and security policy” and has undertaken to expand the support for foreign sales of weapons.

According to British and German British officials and German officials of Great Britain, he will also join a multilateral agreement on the export of arms between Germany, France and Spain.

The new export order for europhyns Eurofighter would be a strengthening of British jobs, as well as solving trade union fears about the loss of critical aviation skills.

British production of combat aircraft, which has been gathered at the Bae Systems factory in Warton in Lancashire, has recently stopped.

The factory is preparing to deliver the last typhoon jet to runny nose as part of the order of 5 billion pounds placed in 2017, but the work on the final assembly line has grounding.

Bae Systems said he was convinced of securing new export orders, because the conflicts in Europe and the Middle East have increased the demand for planes.

Relationships at the beginning of this month increased the warnings that if no new orders are secured, soon there may be a loss of important industrial skills needed to build the next generation of fighter aircraft through the role of Great Britain in the Global Combat Air (GCAP) program, including Italy and Japan.

Typhoon is built by the Pan-European consortium, including BAE, Airbus and Leonardo systems, with each company building different parts for each aircraft.

They also support the final assembly line in every partner country – when a partner country orders nozzles or conducts an export agreement, gathers a plane. Great Britain is a leading nation in export agreements to Saudi, runny nose and Turkey.

The contract may also help in providing more export orders for slowly selling military A400M transport aircraft built by Airbus. The wings of the aircraft are built at the British Airbus factory in Filton, near Bristol.

The boxer armored vehicle is built by a joint venture of BAE Systems-Rheinmetall with cooperation with KNDS UK in Telford.

Great Britain and Germany will also deepen cooperation between public financial bodies-German Bank for the Development of the State of KFW and Great Britain bodies, such as the National Wealth Fund and British Business Bank-on the purpose of mobilizing investments in developing companies.

The contract will be approved by the Chancellor of Great Britain Rachel Reeves and the German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil at the G20 meeting in South Africa.