trochu podporim flegka, ked uz ma tolko minusiek, dnesny Tom Cooper
In turn, President of the Republic of Poland has ordered his armed forces to hand over the first 20 Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine. Simply great: this is not only far too little, far too late, but is going to greatly add to the already immense Ukrainian burden with spares and ammunition. Just for example: the 120mm tank ammo for Rheinmetal-designed guns of Leopards was the only sort of ammunition not yet used by the ZSU. Otherwise, Ukrainian armed forces are using literally everything, from NATO and Soviet/Russian-designed 5.56mm and 7.62mm bullets for assault rifles, via 100mm, 115mm, 125mm shells for Soviet-designed tank guns, to NATO ammo of 105mm for Slovenian-supplied T-55s. Not to talk about artillery ammo for guns calibre 75mm, 76mm, 100mm, 122mm, 152mm and 203mm… If the British could now really add a handful of — overweight/underpowered, but declared for ‘agile’ by the German TV-stations — Challenger 2s, then Ukraine is going to need tank ammo 120mm for L11 rifled guns, plus armoured recovery vehicles capable of moving stuff weighting 80 tons out of the local mud, too. I’m so happy, can’t say….
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