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 "title": "Berlin Will Examine Macron's SAMP/T NG Co-Production Offer — the Obstacle: a Second System Beside Patriot",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/pistorius-samp-t-ng-co-production-macron-offer-patriot-two-systems-aster-b1nt/",
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 "published": "2026-07-21T18:53:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:23:03.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKassel, 21 July 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Speaking at KNDS Deutschland's Kassel plant, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius answered the offer Emmanuel Macron made at the Franco-German council in Brühl on 17 July — co-production of the SAMP/T NG air-defence system, jointly with Italy: Germany should take it \"very, very seriously\" and examine it \"very concretely and in substance\"\n * He named the obstacle in the same breath: it is \"not straightforwardly, and above all not easily, imaginable t",
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