Germany Strikes Deal To Buy US-Made Long-Range Tomahawk Missiles * The Gateway Pundit * by Paul Serran
Tomahawk missile – Wiki Commons
Europe is experiencing a rearming frenzy, but their factories can’t deliver.
With Germany’s industry slowing down for energy costs and environmental hurdles, the proud Deutschlanders have to resort to the obvious solution: buy US weapons.
In the aftermath of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, it arises that Germany has closed a deal to purchase US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles, Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced today.
BREAKING:
Merz announces that the U.S. has agreed to sell Tomahawk long-range cruise missile to Germany.
They will come with Typhon launchers, making the systems ground-based. Europe currently has no such capabilities. The UK has Tomahawks it can fire from submarines and France… pic.twitter.com/iCvr7JTUNj
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 9, 2026
Associated Press reported:
“The agreement on the long-range missiles, which are used to strike targets deep inside enemy territory, was reached this week on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, Merz said.
‘This will close an important strategic gap in our defense, and at the same time, we will work to develop our own European systems and station them in Europe’, he told the German parliament after returning from the two-day summit.”
Germany and the US have sealed a deal to buy American Tomahawk missiles, Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced https://t.co/LON3w00P6i pic.twitter.com/j1VoLejzSJ
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) July 9, 2026
“The Tomahawk cruise missile has been in the U.S. military’s inventory since the 1980s. While slow by missile standards, it flies around 100 feet (about 30 meters) off the ground, making it harder to detect by defense systems.
The Tomahawk has a range of around 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) and precision guidance systems that make it the go-to weapon for striking targets that are deep inland or in hostile territory.”
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile during operations in support of Operation Epic Fury, Feb. 28, 2026. (U.S. Navy Photo)
Welt reported (translated from the German):
“Merz had pointed out to Trump’s decision at the beginning of May that the US did not have enough Tomahawk cruise missiles even against the backdrop of the Iran war. However, the train for a stationing had ‘not left’. As a result, the production of Tomahawk cruise missiles in a joint venture between German and US companies in Germany was also discussed.
The Tomahawk stationing is seen by the German government as an important element in deterring Russia. Moscow has stationed Iskander cruise missiles in its exclave of Kaliningrad, which could reach European targets.
[…] The deployment of medium-range weapons in Germany has therefore again been considered necessary by many experts. The Europeans do not yet have such capabilities themselves and are therefore dependent on the USA.”
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