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German military struggles with hardware problems

By Frank Jordans
Published September 26, 2014 2:22pm ET
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German military struggles with hardware problems
FILE - The Nov. 19, 2001 file photo shows German Navy soldiers standing beside a Sea Lynx helicopter on the air base Upjever, northwestern Germany. German military struggles with hardware problems. German defense officials have been left red-faced after a series of breakdowns delayed the first shipment of arms to Kurdish fighters in Iraq.(AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, file) | Joerg Sarbach

BERLIN (AP) — First a group of German army instructors got stranded in Bulgaria en route to Iraq when their plane malfunctioned.

Then the weapons they were meant to train Kurdish fighters on got stuck in Germany because a Dutch military plane — brought in because no functioning German aircraft was available — broke down.

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