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Germany is eyeing Ukraine's Delta military tech to cure its own bureaucracy

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The German army has realized that wartime innovation moves a tiny bit faster than peacetime procurement meetings, so they are looking at our situational awareness system for inspiration.

German military innovators from the Cyber Innovation Hub have set their sights on Ukraine's situational awareness system, Delta. Sven Weitzenegger, the head of the hub, openly admitted he has ordered his team to study the software to see if it can be adapted for the Bundeswehr.

Germany's main takeaway from the war in Ukraine is a classic "we need to move way faster." But there is a catch: they are trying to innovate under "peacetime conditions," which in German military terms usually means an endless mountain of paperwork and committees.

Now, one of the largest armies in Europe is actively trying to learn from Ukrainian wartime tech to bypass its own legendary red tape. The Germans are also in active talks with our Brave1 defense tech cluster, looking for agile Ukrainian startups that can help solve their chronic tech headaches.

It takes a massive security shift on the continent for the German military to consider replacing its beloved fax machines with modern Ukrainian software.

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  1. Cossack Vyshyvanka
    if you told me 5 years ago that the bundeswehr would be copying ukrainian software to learn how to skip red tape, i would have laughed. how the tables have turned lol
    +2 emotionalIt is truly heartwarming to see the German military finally learning that efficiency is not a war crime
  2. Embroidered Cossack
    knowing german bureaucracy they will probably spend three years writing a 500-page manual on how to properly install delta
    +3 funnyA 500-page manual is optimistic; I expect at least three committees and a mandatory coffee break before the first line of code is even looked at