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crissindahouse on 06 November 2023
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Ryuu96 said:
crissindahouse said:

It's completely stupid but the Kerch bridge is probably the main reason why they don't give Taurus to Ukraine. Scholz (maybe also Pistorius) is against the destruction of the Kerch bridge because Russia could take that as Germany's involvement in the war and German soldiers would have to use topographic data to program Taurus for Ukraine (for any target) which would be the second reason as involvement of German soldiers in the war. Sounds stupid but that's what Scholz thinks...

Pretty sure Storm Shadow and SCALP both use data like that as well to guide the missiles, maybe not as sophisticated as Taurus but still the same idea. Does make me wonder if Storm Shadow has been blocked on being used on Kerch Bridge as well. I wouldn't be surprised if West has an attitude of "Kerch Bridge was built by Russians so it counts as Russian territory so nothing we send is allowed to be used on it" and if that were to be the case then the Kerch Bridge is never going down.

I've edited my post already. Scholz believes (if that info is correct) that France and UK are "allowed" to be more involved as Germany so that German soldiers aren't allowed to program Taurus with topographic data while those from UK and France are allowed to use them for their cruise missiles. 

Not sure if he believes that because of WW2 but wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason even if that has nothing to do with this war in 2023.