I have decided to add another 350 billion shekels to the defense budget over the coming decade. A large portion of that will go to the Air Force.

As part of this effort, we will also build a broad, Israeli-made munitions industry—our own weapons, which will reduce our dependence on procurement from abroad.

Writing in The Telegraph, Zaluzhny said modern warfare "no longer rewards tactical victories in the way it once did," arguing that the conflict is "a war of attrition" where battlefield gains are measured "in metres rather than miles" and come at an extraordinary cost.

He acknowledged that Ukrainian strikes on Russian logistics and infrastructure have imposed real costs on Moscow but stressed they are "expensive, technologically demanding and ultimately reciprocal," adding that "neither side can rely on this form of warfare to produce a decisive strategic outcome."

Zaluzhny said Russia's strategy is focused on exhausting Ukraine's manpower, resources, and morale. He argued that only NATO's combined military and economic strength can ultimately defeat Russia, while criticizing the alliance's "defensive culture" as being "stuck in the Cold War."

On the sidelines of the NATO meeting in Ankara, we agreed with the American government that U.S. Tomahawk missiles will be purchased by us and stationed in Germany.

We are closing an important strategic gap in our defense while simultaneously working to develop our own European systems and stationing them in Europe.

You are stoking fear of war and using it as a blank check to cast aside the last restraints on borrowing under the pretext of spending for security.

You are driving defense spending to astronomical heights without making Germany any safer as a result.

Instead, you are building a state-directed and state-financed arms industry as a replacement for the real industry that your policies have destroyed.

An arms industry whose products you then give away to Ukraine.

"Modern warfare no longer rewards tactical victories in the way it once did. Advances in drone technology, precision strike capabilities and surveillance have transformed the battlefield, making decisive breakthroughs extraordinarily difficult for either side.

This is no longer a war of swift manoeuvres. It is a war of attrition.

Every tactical gain now comes at an extraordinary cost. Positions can be taken, but holding them, reinforcing them and evacuating the wounded has become increasingly difficult under constant drone surveillance. Success on the battlefield is measured in metres rather than miles, and often at a price that bears little relation to its strategic value.

The same is true beyond the front line. Ukraine’s increasingly effective strikes against Russian logistics and critical infrastructure have imposed real costs on Moscow. But these attacks are expensive, technologically demanding and ultimately reciprocal. Russia retains the ability to strike back with equal or greater force. Neither side can rely on this form of warfare to produce a decisive strategic outcome".

I believe that the constructive and productive discussions we held with U.S. President Donald Trump will lead to concrete outcomes that meet our country's expectations in the defense industry, particularly with regard to our national fighter aircraft, KAAN, and the F-35 program.