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Mobilising safety and efficiency: www.mercedes-benz.com/defence-vehicles Editorial EU Put to the Test What had long been regarded as inconceiv- The second main argument of the Brexit able became a reality on the morning of 23 campaigners was less about a “democratic June 2016. The British voted to leave the sense of citizenship” than of material self- European Union. The majority that voted for interest. Despite all the exception rulings "Brexit", at just over 52 percent, was slim, granted, the United Kingdom is among and a great deal smaller than the 67 percent the net contribution payers in the EU. This who voted to stay in the then EEC in 1975, money, it was suggested, could be put to but ignoring the majority vote is impossible. better use invested in the social structures The rules of the democratic game are to be back home. What was sidelined here was respected, and anyone who tries to bend the fact that an involvement in the common them is undermining the basic principles of European market in line with the Norwegian political order which make our continent model would not be for free. Should the UK what it is. Those who now bemoan the fact want to pursue this after leaving, it would that the “Oldies” overrode the interests of have to pay for it, but without having a say in the “Young Ones”, whose future, in the final the use of the resources as in the past. analysis, is really at stake, or mutter about the What may have swung the vote, however, people who led the Brexit campaign being was the sense of gaining independence prompted by dumb resentment, without be- from European rules and regulations when it ing in the least clear about the consequences, comes to immigration policy. The EU has not need to be aware what pattern of thought proved its worth in getting a grip on the on- they are in fact serving here. Up to now, it going refugee crisis – and that is not a view has been left to critics of democracy from held just by the British alone. If things had the far left and the far right to draw the dis- been otherwise, the referendum might well torted image of the immature voter, whose have gone the other way. blinkered vision and lack of understanding Regardless of whether the Brexit vote actu- made it impossible to see where their real ally leads to Brexit, the questions which the interests lay, and so make a rational decision. British are asking themselves are starting But people who take that line are calling into to come onto Orders of Business in other question the legitimacy of voting altogether, European states as well. The campaign for and leave matters in the hands of autocratic the “Nexit” referendum in the Netherlands so-called or self-styled “experts”. is already well under way. There would be So what prompted the majority of voters to no cause for concern about the EU in this vote to leave? One of the more basic answers context if it could present itself as a success can be found from the main points underlying story – something it has not done since the the Brexit campaign. There are three issues Maastricht Treaty – which the greater mass which particularly stand out. One criticism of the citizens could experience for them- was the subtle disempowering of the British selves. But this is not the case. For broad Parliament, which, with regard to legislation, sections of the populations of almost all was seen as largely rubber-stamping what had EU states, the past two decades have been already been decided in Brussels. This argu- characterised by stagnation, a sense of their ment is not to be understood as the notion welfare being constantly under threat, of that the British were clinging in some eccentric growing inequality, of cuts in social services, manner to their national sovereignty. The and increasing pressure to perform. For view that the Brussels institutions are drawing them, the welfare promises of European the reins of power more and more into their integration have not been fulfilled. On a own hands without being subject to any real global comparison, too, Europe is seen as a democratic restraint is widespread in Europe. continent plagued by weak growth, unable All appeals to follow the subsidiary principle, to find its way out of the financial and cur- and only to impose rules on Europe in those rency crisis, and running into a demographic contexts in which the nations themselves were crisis with both eyes wide open. But is the overstretched, came to nothing. The dynam- EU really to blame? Or has it perhaps actu- ics of the inertia of EU bureaucracy in pursu- ally prevented something worse happening? ing, sometimes with more enthusiasm and This is something to think about, and an sometimes less, a vision of a European Fed- answer has to be found, if, following the eral State, leave no room for questions as to Brexit referendum, we do not simply want whether centralisation is necessarily efficient, to shrug our shoulders and turn to the next or whether this is something that the citizens item on the agenda. of the Member States really want at all. Peter Bossdorf August 2016 · European Security & Defence 1 Content Strategic Airlift Defence Modernisation in Poland The future fleet of European aircraft should – at least – In recent years Poland has increasingly invested in its enable the rapid deployment of VJTF and NRF forces and armed forces. A technical modernisation programme for EU Battlegroups. Page 32 the 2013–2022 period was launched in 2012. Page 37 46 Protected Logistic Vehicles SECURITY POLICY Gerhard Heiming 8 NATO’s Warsaw Summit: Re-Establishing 54 “I would deploy F-35 anywhere…” Deterrence, Projecting Stability Interview with General Herbert J. Carlisle, Jamie Shea Commander US Air Combat Command (ACC) 14 Poland – a Frontline State? 57 Combat against SAM Systems Thomas Bauer Ulrich Rapreger 20 The Effects of Finland’s Possible NATO Membership 60 Nordic Alternative – the SUPER GRIPEN Conclusions of a Recent Assessment Georg Mader Mats Bergquist, René Nyberg, François Heisbourg 61 Naval Propulsion and Teija Tiilikainen Shifting to Hybrid and Integrated Electric Concepts Luca Peruzzi ARMED FORCES 68 Chemical and Biological Sensors Technology and Market Trends 24 Delivering Security in a World of Dynamic Instability Dan Kaszeta Petr Pavel INDUSTRY & MARKETS 28 The Slovenian Armed Forces Recent Developments and Future Challenges 72 South Africa’s Defence Exports Andrej Osterman Helmoed Roemer Heitman 78 Hensoldt Ante Portas ARMAMENT & TECHNOLOGY Interview with Thomas Müller, Managing Director, 32 “Mind the Gap!” Airbus DS Electronics and Border Security GmbH A Review of Strategic Airlift Programmes and Capabilities 80 The Turkish Aviation and Space Industry in European NATO and EU Nations Korhan Özkilinc Georg Mader 85 “The selection decision for a MEADS based 37 Poland and Defence Modernisation TLVS in Germany has received considerable Miroslav Gyűrösi international interest.” 43 Air-to-Air Missile Market Developments Interview with Siegfried Bücheler, Member of the David Saw Board of MBDA Deutschland 2 European Security & Defence · August 2016 Index of Advertisers AAD 75 ADEX 81 AFCEA Europe 3/5 VIEWPOINT FROM … Daimler AG 2nd cover Diehl Aerosystems 32 13 Madrid: Defence Continuity versus Political Eurofighter Jagdflugzeuge GmbH 4th cover Uncertainty Nuria Fernández Fr. Lürssen Werft GmbH & Co. KG 76 Future Forces Forum 35 19 London: Security Implications of Brexit Tim Guest General Dynamics European Land Systems 39 GEROH GmbH & Co. KG 41 IDEAS 83 ISDEF 17 11 I/ITSEC 7 COLUMNS Kärcher Futuretech GmbH 69 1 Editorial MSPO 15 Orbital ATK, Inc. 9 4 Periscope Siemens AG 63 67 Masthead SMM 65 SOBRA 31 87 Firms & Faces ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH 17 88 Preview Tyron Runflat Ltd 51 Periscope Next Generation Tiltrotor to address a broad target set, ranging from Combines Helicopter with static and moving light armoured vehicles Aircraft to small boats and personnel. The FURY (df) The Bell V-280 Valor full-size mockup precision weapon is guided by a GPS-aided made its international debut at Farnbor- inertial navigation unit system with a semi- ough. This helicopter shows a glimpse of (Graphic: Diehl Defence) active laser seeker terminal guidance capa- the future, the company said. With the bility. This enables the weapon to engage unique capability of a helicopter combined both stationary and moving targets within with flying like an airplane the range of the one metre accuracy, or fly to specific target V-280 Valor will be unmatched. “The Bell coordinates. Active Laser (SAL) seeker detecting laser ra- Advanced Radar Detection diation reflected from the target is used for System for the REAPER engagement,” the company said. “In case (df) General Atomics Aeronautical Systems the helicopter has no laser illuminator on (GA ASI) and Raytheon Deutschland an- board, this task can be performed either by nounced that they will integrate the Ad- (Graphic: Bell Helicopter) ground troops, e.g.

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