Germany unveils plan to acquire ‘space lasers’

The country will spend around $40 billion on military equipment despite economic hardships

Germany is planning to spend $41 billion on military space equipment, including spy satellites and offensive lasers, the head of the nation’s Space Command, Major General Michael Traut, has told Reuters.

The move is part of a rearmament push that Berlin says is necessary to counter Russia and China. The EU’s biggest economy, however, is grappling with what the government has described as a “structural crisis.”

Germany plans to spend $582 billion on defense by 2029, in line with Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s vision of making the Bundeswehr the “strongest…

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