was discussed in the leaked conversation as a potential target. So, they also
QC the Ukrainians when loading the SCALP, because Storm Shadow and SCALPS are relatively similar from a purely technical point of view. They've already told me that, yes, for God's sake, they would also look over the shoulders of the Ukrainians when loading the Taurus. But the question is, how do we solve that? Do we let them do the mission planning and give them
MBDA as a reachback and then put one of our people in MBDA?″ The participants discussed using the defense contractor
MBDA in
Schrobenhausen as a go-between to send targeting data or to drive the targeting
data file by car to Poland – "someone could drive back and forth," one of them suggested. Another cautioned against pitching such ideas to Pistorius because it would scupper the project right away: "We have to be careful that we don't articulate any kill criteria at the beginning," he said. “Imagine what would happen if the press were to catch wind of this!" quoted in English news reports featured a number of errors, some of which were backtranslated into German and entered reports by German news providers such as
Tagesschau. The reference to mission planning by "
reachback", for example, meaning consultation of British personnel stationed in Britain, turned into a missile transport using "
armoured Ridgeback vehicles". The reference to QC, short for
quality control, turned into reports that the French were transporting missiles in
Audi Q7 SUV vehicles. == Responses ==