.FOR MONTHS Olaf Scholz, Germany's chancellor, has resisted domestic and also international stress to provide Ukraine with German-made Taurus boat trip rockets, a precise, long-range munition. Despairing to help a progressively beleaguered Ukraine, some allies have concocted ingenious plans to help alter Germany's thoughts. David Cameron, Britain's overseas secretary, has prompted his openness to a plan that would observe Germany deliver Taurus rockets to Britain, thus permitting Britain to send even more of its own Tornado Shadow cruise ship missiles to Ukraine. Yet Mr Scholz declines to shift. What are actually Taurus rockets-- and why is the German federal government therefore hesitant to send them to Ukraine?