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Posted on 03/27/2023 4:14:57 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The 18 Leopard 2 battle tanks pledged by Germany to support Ukraine in its war against Russia have arrived in Ukraine, the German Defence Ministry said on Monday.
Germany agreed in January to supply the tanks, regarded as among the best in the West's arsenal, overcoming misgivings about sending heavy weaponry that Kyiv says is crucial to defeat Russia's invasion but Moscow casts as a dangerous provocation.
"I'm sure that they can make a decisive contribution on the front," German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said in a tweet.
Besides the 18 tanks, 40 German Marder infantry fighting vehicles, and two armoured recovery vehicles had also reached Ukraine, a security source said.
The German army trained the Ukrainian tank crews as well as the troops assigned to operate the Marder vehicles for several weeks in Muenster and Bergen in northern Germany.
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Cool, new targets!
May they be destroyed quickly
shelf life about to expire, money for the big boys
Hope they can be put to good use
As Losses Mount, Russia Is Reactivating Soviet-Era T-54 Tanks. That Says So Much.
pretty much — a dumping ground for old gear
According to some here they were already being destroyed.
To:
“”The first delivered Leopard has been reported to have met its fate, destroyed before its first week in country””
Got it, you are promoting the claim that the first Leopard has already been destroyed on what, the 28th of February, the 27th?
Can you tell us anything about where, how, or under what circumstances?
31 posted on 3/1/2023, 7:18:07 AM by ansel12
18 tanks?
Madness.
May they be destroyed quickly
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They will be hunted down, the DU AT rounds England gave them makes them Vlad’s number one target. I suspect they will go the way off of US’s M777 artillery pieces, largely destroyed. Time will tell.
Will they actually be put into service or stored in some safe spot.
Why would you say such a thing?
“18 tanks?”
That transfer, yes. There are others.
It didn’t happen:
Video showing “reports” that the Leopards were destroyed have been shown to be completely fake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6UHokbXPCQ
I know, I just gave him a chance to own up to it before I showed him that his pro-Russia sources were making it up.
That poster posts a lot of made-up stuff.
Because I think Ukraine is a corrupt shithole and I will celibrate their dmise.
“”They will be hunted down, the DU AT rounds England gave them makes them Vlad’s number one target.””
According to you Leopard tanks were being hunted down and destroyed a month ago.
18 tanks will serve the equivalent of an armor company. Should be useful, but as they told me at the Armor School at Ft Knox, on the battlefield, think of yourself as a 55 ton infantryman.
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