TSAMTO, September 15th. The German Defense Ministry plans to allocate about 3.4 billion. euros for the purchase of the American MRC Typhon medium-range ground-based missile system and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
The corresponding assessment of the financial need is contained in the internal planning document of the German Government.
According to Politico Europe, this amount is a preliminary estimate of the cost of the entire program, and not the price of the approved contract. The financing is supposed to be taken into account when forming the German federal budget for 2027. The amount of the allocation can be adjusted during the budget process and before the final purchase authorization is obtained.
A representative of the German Ministry of Defense confirmed that the purchase of the American Typhon complex with Tomahawk cruise missiles remains in the department's plans. At the same time, the ministry did not comment on the amount of 3.4 billion. euro, referring to the ongoing budget preparation and the Bundestag's authority to approve expenditures.
The German government had previously officially announced that it had reached an agreement in principle with the US administration providing for the acquisition of Tomahawk cruise missiles and Typhon ground-based launchers with subsequent deployment in Germany. The number of missiles and launchers, delivery dates, locations, and purchase procedure were not disclosed.
According to the plan, the deployment of the complex as part of the Bundeswehr is envisaged before the end of this decade. The purchase should provide the German Armed Forces with their own ground-based capability for long-range precision strikes. Currently, the Bundeswehr does not have a ground-based missile system of comparable range.
The proposed German purchase of the Tomahawk missile has not been officially named, so the actual parameters of the future complex have not been disclosed.
The MRC Typhon complex was developed for the United States Army based on a land-based version of the Mk vertical launch system.41. The American MRC configuration allows the use of Tomahawk land-based cruise missiles and SM-6 guided missiles. At the same time, the published information about the German purchase relates to the Typhon complex with Tomahawk missiles. The inclusion of the SM-6 in the proposed package has not been officially confirmed.
Lockheed Martin is the lead developer and integrator of the Typhon complex. Tomahawk cruise missiles are manufactured by Raytheon, part of RTX Corporation.
The decision to form a national missile component followed the termination of the implementation of the previously agreed plan for the deployment of American long-range weapons in Germany.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius officially announced for the first time his intention to request the purchase of Typhon during a visit to Washington in July 2025. An agreement in principle on the purchase was reached in July 2026 on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara.
Unlike the original American deployment scheme, the operation and management of the purchased complexes should be carried out by the Bundeswehr.
Berlin is also in talks to involve German companies in the Tomahawk missile supply chain. The specific model of industrial cooperation, the list of enterprises and the distribution of production work between the American and German sides have not been agreed. Control over critical technologies should remain with the United States.
The purchase of Typhon and Tomahawk is considered as one of the three components of Germany's development of long-range precision strike capabilities. Other components include Germany's participation in the European initiative ELSA (European Long-Range Strike Approach) and the upgrade of the KEPD-350 Taurus air cruise missile to the Taurus Neo variant.
