Germany has ordered €23 billion ($24.7 billion) worth of weapons and equipment for its armed forces, or Bundeswehr, during a visit by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to the United States. A total of around 380 contracts are in place with US defence companies, Pistorius said on Wednesday in the US city of Philadelphia during a tour of a helicopter factory belonging to the US company Boeing. The CH47-F Chinook heavy-lift transport helicopter, 60 of which Germany has ordered in the state-of-the-art Block II variant, is produced there. After the visit, Pistorius said that the company had confirme…