The German military put its first IRIS-T SLM air defence system into service on Wednesday, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in attendance. Speaking in Todendorf in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, Scholz said the new system was “about maintaining security and peace in Europe.” Scholz said Russia under President Vladimir Putin has been rearming for years, including in its Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad. “He has moved missiles to Kaliningrad – 530 kilometres as the crow flies from Berlin. It would be negligent not to react appropriately,” the chancellor stated. The new IRIS-T SLM system w…