Is Israel Deploying Cruise Missiles With Nuclear Warheads On German Built Submarines?

The Dolphin class submarines are built for Israel in a shipyard in Kiel (March 2012 photo). DAPD

Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons On German-Built Submarines -- Spiegel Online

A German shipyard has already built three submarines for Israel, and three more are planned. Now SPIEGEL has learned that Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The German government has known about Israel's nuclear weapons program for decades, despite its official denials.

Germany is helping Israel to develop its military nuclear capabilities, SPIEGEL has learned. According to extensive research carried out by the magazine, Israel is equipping submarines that were built in the northern German city of Kiel and largely paid for by the German government with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The missiles can be launched using a previously secret hydraulic ejection system. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told SPIEGEL that Germans should be "proud" that they have secured the existence of the state of Israel "for many years."

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My Comment: More info on these Dolphin class subs can be read here. As for information on Israeli capabilities for submarine launched cruise missiles .... not surprisingly .... the information is very sparse.

German Defense Minister: Israeli Military Strike On Iran's Nuclear Faciltiies Will Not Succeed

Germany: Israeli Military Strike On Iran Unlikely To Succeed -- Haaretz

In interview to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, German defense minister says an Israeli attack on Tehran's nuclear facilities would cause 'obvious political damage.'

German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Sunday in an interview to a German newspaper that the chances that an Israeli attack on Iran will succeed are not high.

Speaking to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the German defense minister said that an Israel Defense Forces strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is "highly unlikely" to succeed, and noted that such a strike would cause "obvious political damage."

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My Comment: The German defense minister believes that sanctions will work .... when they start in July. Sighhhh .... I am not so optimistic.

German Luftwaffe Pilots Are Now Being Trained In Israel

An Israeli army technician walks past the Air Force drone "Heron" at the Palmahim Airbase in central Israel on May 3, 2010. AFP

German Luftwaffe Pilots Train To Fly Drones ... In Israel -- NPR

That German Luftwaffe pilots should be training to remotely fly drones isn't surprising.

That they're doing their training in Israel, now that's a bit of an eyebrow raiser.

Germany is obviously a much different place since the 1930s and 1940s. The nation that so readily plunged the world into a catastrophic world war just over 70 years ago and had as its official policy genocide against Jews, now only reluctantly commits its combat forces and has made Holocaust-denial a punishable offense.

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Update: German drone pilots eye Afghanistan... from Israel -- Reuters

My Comment: This news certainly raises my eyebrow.