Spain has just finished training their initial group of Ukrainian tankers on the LEO 2A4 with training lasting a month but for Spain they noted the crews and maintainers are
experienced War surviving trainees.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defe...w_members.html
I posted about a month back or so from
Army Recognition an article which broke down the European status of all
LEOPARD tank holdings.
Everyone was pointing a finger at Germany about their contributions to the Ukraine. The next ref does a good job to address the many issues facing all the EU members with their
LEOPARD tanks.
The reason I submitted the German OOB tank I did (And it's
very current in
ALL it's capabilities.) is that everything newer is in the "
pipeline" to be upgraded by degrees until they reach the final stages to be finished off in the end to be brought up to the
2A7V.
If you look at the OOB you actually see this "
transition" in place as was entered last year in the game.
The tank situation in Germany is so bad, that to replace the
16 LEO 2A6 "older model" going to the Ukraine, Germany went to Switzerland to see if they would sale Germany some of their
LEO 2A6 tanks.
Well, that's not going to happen at this time or anytime soon.
https://www.euro-defence.eu/2023/03/...tle-tanks-for-germany/#:~:text=German%20government%20has%20now%20request ed%20purchase%20of%20an,be%20taken%20over%20and%20 modernised%20by%20Rheinmetall%20company.
Germany had also tried to improve the number of
LEO 1A5 for the Ukraine in making an offer to buy
Brazil's. Also, more recently they refused to also sell Germany any
105mm tank rounds as well.
https://global.espreso.tv/brazil-rej...-ukraine-media
Part of the tank refusal is based on the following that I've been tracking.
https://militaryleak.com/2021/06/16/...d-1a5br-tanks/
Now back to the "
deficient" issue...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/w...ine-tanks.html
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/...eopard-tanks-t
One last to tired to get it where it should go-sorry!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...7cacf350&ei=17
Getting better passed my weapons quals I live for another 6 months and do it again.
Now you
better understand my "
crystal ball" operational time period for the European tanks etc.
Regards,
Pat
