BERLIN (AP) — Germany has struck a deal to buy U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles and station them in Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced Thursday.
The agreement on the long-range missiles, which are used to strike targets deep inside enemy territory, was reached this week on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Turkey's capital, Ankara, Merz said.
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"This will close an important strategic gap in our defense, and at the same time, we will work to develop our own European systems and station them in Europe," he told the German parliament after returning from the two-day summit.
The deal struck with the Trump administration amounts to broader export of U.S. know-how to some of its major allies in Europe, whose security posture has been upended by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.
