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Four weeks ago, Germany agreed to send dozens of Gepard anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine in what it called a turning-point after earlier having refused to provide heavy weapons.
Berlin said it can deliver the first Gepards in July, but it now turns out there’s no ammunition.
One reason for Germany's delay in sending the anti-aircraft guns was a lack of ammunition, industry sources and Ukraine's ambassador said – a fact that was well-known to Berlin when it first made the pledge.
Germany no longer uses Gepards and has scant stocks of ammunition.
Supplying them to Ukraine "only makes sense when there is the ammunition to go with it - that was clear right from the start," a source said, speaking on condition of anonymity as the topic is sensitive.
Since promising the Gepard tanks, Berlin has pledged more heavy weapons to Ukraine.
At home, it aims to use a special fund to boost defence spending over 4-5 years, bringing it to the 2% of economic output mandated by NATO.
But it has yet to pass the needed laws.
Soon after the invasion of Ukraine, the defence ministry's head of procurement, Vice-Admiral Carsten Stawitzki, invited weapons manufacturers to a WebEx meeting on Feb. 28 to discuss ways to increase military readiness to defend Germany.
“He made it crystal clear that we had to get ready to ramp up production in anticipation of a huge volume and variety of orders coming in," an industry source told Reuters.
That has yet to materialise, two defence sources told Reuters.”
"We've got no orders yet," another industry source said. Other nations placed orders with Germany's defence industry days after the invasion, the source said, declining to give details. "In Germany, the war has had no impact on defence procurement procedures."