The traffic light federal government and the German Bundestag are buying new anti-aircraft gun tanks for the Bundeswehr. A CSU politician is directly calling for more Skyrangers from Rheinmetall.
In the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, they are omnipresent on all sectors of the front: kamikaze drones. The Skyranger is a successor to the Gepard weapon system, which was decommissioned years ago. The defense policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group criticized the long time it took to make a decision.