Pierre Avril is correspondent in Berlin
An "anti-Putin" air shield, with Germany in command, alongside Israel and the United States, but without France: the launch in mid-October of the European Sky Shield air defense project constitutes , in the eyes of Paris, the latest affront in a series of industrial affronts that the Elysée considers having had to wipe from its main partner.
It has been seven years since the French Thales and the European missile manufacturer MBDA worked with Italy on the development of the Mamba medium-range missile defense system.
The German Rheinmetall had also rallied there as part of an order from Singapore.
Perfected since then, Mamba has just been deployed in Romania as part of NATO's integrated command.
At the end of August, Olaf Scholz torpedoed the initiative by announcing a second competing project for an anti-missile shield, two months after the German firm Diehl presented its mobile surface-to-air missile equipped with a…
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