Almost three dozen Ukrainian soldiers are being trained in CBRN defense as part of the EU training mission EUMAM. They will be taught how to use the main decontamination station 70 (HEP 70) supplied by Germany. The HEP 70 is used to decontaminate vehicles contaminated with nuclear, biological or chemical agents. Two 1,500-liter tanks are…
Contents of the latest German military aid package for Ukraine have just been announced at the NATO summit in Vilnius. The packet includes: – 25 Leopard 1 A5 main battle tanks (from industry) – 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles (from industry) – Five Bergepanzer 2 Armoured Recovery Vehicles (from industry) – Two Patriot launchers (from…
Rheinmetall announced today that it has been contracted by the Dutch government to supply fourteen Leopard 2A4 to Ukraine. Previously – in April 2023 – the governments of the Netherlands and Denmark had announced their intention to jointly acquire Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks and make them available to Ukraine. So now followed the corresponding…
Hensoldt is supplying Ukraine with six more TRML-4D high-performance radars to strengthen its air defense. The order is worth 100 million euros. Delivery of the radars is scheduled for the second half of the year. The TRML-4D uses so-called Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar technology with multiple digitally shaped beams. It is capable of…
Last week, the current vice-president and designated new president of the German procurement agency BAAINBw, Annette Lehnigk-Emden, signed a framework agreement with KMW for the purchase of up to 28 PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers. In a first step, ten howitzers will be procured to replace the 14 guns that went to Ukraine. According to BAAINBw,…
On its 74th birthday, NATO welcomes a new member to its ranks. Whereas the founding meeting in 1949 was held in Washington, the decision-makers are now meeting in Brussels to mark this historic event. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg sees no “better way” to celebrate NATO’s anniversary than by welcoming a new member into the defense…
“You are to think that the reports that the United States Government had anything to do with the undersea blast against the Nord Stream pipelines is ridiculous. We can discount that out of hand,” says U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price. Price also expresses doubts about the other recent allegations of guilt. ” The anonymous…
The difference between target inventory and operational ready systems has been significant in Germany, not only in the case of main battle tanks, even before war in Ukraine started. Due to outsourcing of logistic support maintenance periods have become too long, according to reports from the Bundeswehr. As a result, the planned handing over of…
Since the fall of 2022, the German Armed Forces have maintained a combat brigade to defend Lithuania. To fasten the ties between the two nations, about 600 members of the Bundeswehr participate in a joint military exercise in Pabradė. The brigade’s liaison element is permanently stationed in Rukla. At the Pabrade military training area in…
Germany will not only deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine but also enable the soldiers to actually use the weaponry in combat. For this purpose Ukrainian Soldiers joined their German and Dutch colleagues in the city of Munster. The main goal of the operation is to teach the Ukrainian forces how to manoeuvre the tank,…