"This war has nothing to do with NATO. It's not NATO’s war," Stefan Kornelius, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, told reporters in Berlin on Monday. "NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory," he added.

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[–] 39 points 7 months ago (13 children)

But not out of principle ... our ships just don't go that far without breaking down!

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    lol is that true? are you german?

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    It is a bit of a meme in germany that our military equipment suffers from a lack of maintenance. Also there were a bunch of cases of new weapons systems just failing catastrophically or having huge security issues.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    My country is a bit towards the south and nobody really knows how our ships still manage to float.

    We have ships where the entire navigation suite has been replaced with a commercial GPS.

    The guns are fired... Every now and then. Sparingly. We still have ammunition from the 70's in stock. Some times we even manage to misplace equipment.

    Yet somehow we're considered as the reliable ally, although a bit... wierd.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    We have ships where the entire navigation suite has been replaced with a commercial GPS.

    Honestly, that'll do just fine in 90% of cases.

    Only issues are:

    • What do you do if some country has maliciously turned off or disabled the GPS satellites?

    • The commercial GPS unit probably isn't very EMP-resistant, so it might quickly be disabled if EMPs start going off all over the place ... as would happen in a nuclear war.

    But as long as you're not fighting anybody capable of turning the entire GPS system off and the war hasn't gone nuclear, it should probably be fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Sincerely? I'd expect to see astrolabes or sextants being pulled from storage.

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