{"id":406,"date":"2026-05-10T05:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2026-05-10T05:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:50:45","slug":"germany-revives-effort-to-buy-us-tomahawks-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Germany revives effort to buy US Tomahawks, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Germany is reviving efforts to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40385951\/putin-says-tomahawk-supply-to-ukraine-would-destroy-us-relations\">Tomahawk cruise missiles<\/a> from the \u200bUS, the <em>Financial Times<\/em> reported on Sunday, \u200cciting people with knowledge of Berlin\u2019s strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Berlin hopes to persuade the Trump administration to agree to the \u200bsale of the Tomahawks together with their \u200bTyphon ground launchers, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House, \u2060the US Department of Defense and the \u200bGerman Ministry of Defence did not immediately respond \u200bto <em>Reuters<\/em> requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius is planning a trip to Washington, the report \u200bsaid, in a bid to revive Berlin\u2019s \u200bproposal to purchase long-range systems, which was first submitted in \u200cJuly \u2060last year.<\/p>\n<p>The US has yet to respond.<\/p>\n<p>The visit, however, hinges upon whether Pistorius can secure a meeting with Pete Hegseth, his US \u200bcounterpart, unnamed \u200bsources told \u2060the <em>FT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is a long-range cruise missile typically \u200blaunched from sea to attack targets \u200bin \u2060deep-strike missions.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the Pentagon said it had signed a seven-year deal with Raytheon to increase Tomahawk \u2060production \u200bas its stockpiles have been \u200bdepleted by the war with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is reviving efforts to buy Tomahawk cruise missiles from the \u200bUS, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, \u200cciting people with knowledge of Berlin\u2019s strategy. Berlin hopes to persuade the Trump administration to agree to the \u200bsale of the Tomahawks together with their \u200bTyphon ground launchers, the newspaper said. The White House, \u2060the US Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}