In December 2019 the Defense Ministry published a report on the material readiness of the Bundeswehr’s main weapon systems. Its subheading said that readiness was above average on deployments, but im Inland nach wie vor nicht zufriedenstellend, at home still not satisfactory. Average readiness was about 70 percent. Newer systems were mostly below 40 percent, in what the report called the clearly unsatisfactory range.
The report has a public part and a secret part. The public part, the ministry said, is meant to contribute to public debate and to transparency. In January 2022 the ministry reported that readiness had risen to 77 percent, but that eleven systems, most of them older, were below 50 percent.