Germany Considers Defence Cuts
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The German government is taking measures to cut costs where possible in order to reduce its federal debt and consolidate the budget, with potentially severe consequences for defence. A letter from the State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance has indicated the sums to be saved in the budgetary cycle of 2011 to 2014 amount to a total of EUR 4.3 billion (US $5.28 billion).
Programmes which may be affected include the EC655 Tiger (UHT variant) multi-role fire support helicopter as we...
