Meeting in Washington, DC yesterday, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a statement of intent on increased cooperation in military matters, focusing on Germany becoming NATO’s second-largest weapons supplier after the United States. This is to cover the enormous need for weapons, other hardware, and ammunition. Both countries are to cooperate in the development of new weapons systems, and their production, inclusively through licenses.

The two officials confirmed plans for the delivery of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles and U.S. F-35A fighter jets, as well as the purchase of Typhon missile-launchers. “With Typhon and Tomahawk,” the German Defense Ministry’s release says, “the Bundeswehr would gain the Deep Precision Strike (DPS) capability—that is, the ability to accurately strike distant enemy targets.” In parallel projects, “for example with British partners on the European Long-Range Strike Approach (ELSA) as well as with Ukraine,” DPS development will proceed as well, the release says.