A high commander of the Danish Armed Forces, Per Ludvigsen, who advises the country’s arms industry has revealed that Denmark should not depend militarily on the United States. The statements of the former Deputy Defense Chief, occur nine years after he signed a purchase agreement of 27 US F-35 aircraft.
“When the F-35 purchase agreement was reached, no one imagined that we would end up in this situation,” he said in an interview with TV2. “I can only say that we can no longer fully trust Americans “he added.
One of the risks of this unit is that, when acquiring this weapons, the US administration could block the future purchase or supply of necessary systems and components.
“All I can say is that we can no longer fully trust Americans and that we can no longer fully trust that Americans do not deactivate, for example, the F-35,” said Per Ludvigsen, which stressed that Not only does it happen with airplanes but also with the rest of the US teams.
“This applies to all US teams. If you are not sure that the planning missions or the necessary technical support cannot be interrupted, then you should not buy it,” he said.
“The problem is that the F-35 and the Danish operation of the F-35 are very integrated into an international community that is governed by the United States. We depend largely on US support (operational, technical and logistics) to operate and maintain the F-35,” he said.
Despite the warnings of Per Ludvigsen, it should be noted that his current work is that of Danish and Israeli Defense Industries, so his speech degrades in a certain part by being able to have certain interests behind
Also, as he defended, although it is good to gain independence in this regard, it is also true that it is “Logistically very difficult” Replace US combat planes.
“It makes no sense to make a really good system if you can’t use it. So it is better to have a perhaps less good system, but you can really use,” he said during the interview.
