The month of May began with the announcement by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, that he is going to of the total of 39,000 that are destined in Germany.
. The North American country has also reported that deployment will not occur which was planned on German soil American Tomahawk cruise missiles.
The presence in Germany of Tomahawk missiles had been agreed in 2024 by former US President Joe Biden and former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. But Trump has decided to break that agreement.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistoriushas lamented that it represents a “capacity gap” stay without them, since it is about missiles that have a range of up to 1,600 kilometersa feature that works as a important deterrent for the country and for the entire European continent.
The possible solution: the Elsa program
The possible solution to the shortage of missiles with a range of between 1,000 and 3,000 kilometers in Europe is due to the Elsa program. This is an international initiative launched by Germany, France, Poland and Italy in 2024 with the aim of developing various European-made long-range missiles.
That military production program It currently has six countries, but Spain is not among them. The United Kingdom and Sweden joined Elsa after the initiative was born.
As reported within the framework of that program There are several projects in development (two of them with a range of more than 2,000 kilometers). However, most are in the initial stages and They will not enter service until well into the 2030s.
In this regard, Mikhail Kokorich, CEO of the defense company Destinusrecently expressed that, beyond Elsa, which is important, “Europe will need several industrial pathways, not a perfect centralized program. “The requirement is too urgent and too large for a single traditional contracting model.”
