even ignoring this, if NATO wants it, the bundeswehr will fully rearm with no restrictions. the JSDF is currently in this process, because having japan and germany as rabid attack dogs is more useful than having them disarmed.
H+K has already been mentioned, but besides massive amounts of small arms, Germany is already huge in manufacturing and exporting tanks (the Leopard II is widely used in Saudi-Arabia and the UAE, for example), main guns for tanks (i think the US army uses a Rheinmetal canon on their Abrams tanks) and submarines. The military-industrial complex is very definitely a thing here, germany is consistently among the 5 biggest arms exporters in the world. there's always a multitude of wars being waged in the world that directly line the pockets of our bourgeoisie.
It's not useless: Germany will be buying a shit ton of weapons and military vehicles and bombs from the US. That's the point of the US military too.
even ignoring this, if NATO wants it, the bundeswehr will fully rearm with no restrictions. the JSDF is currently in this process, because having japan and germany as rabid attack dogs is more useful than having them disarmed.
Japan has been working up to it for a very long time and I'm surprised that it's even taken this long for them to go all out
there's enough of an anti-war sentiment here to stop the LDP from going full balls to the wall like Germany has suddenly decided it wants to do
Would be kinda funny if this means Germany spins up its own defence industry and starts eating Raytheon's pie.
Heckler & Koch already exist, there is a thriving arms manufacturing industry in germany.
H+K has already been mentioned, but besides massive amounts of small arms, Germany is already huge in manufacturing and exporting tanks (the Leopard II is widely used in Saudi-Arabia and the UAE, for example), main guns for tanks (i think the US army uses a Rheinmetal canon on their Abrams tanks) and submarines. The military-industrial complex is very definitely a thing here, germany is consistently among the 5 biggest arms exporters in the world. there's always a multitude of wars being waged in the world that directly line the pockets of our bourgeoisie.