The Leopard tank has become a disaster for Ukraine

According to Fars International News Agency, the German newspaper Spiegel reported that a German commission that recently visited the Leopard tank repair center in Lithuania found that many of these tanks were damaged before they were damaged on the battlefield. According to this newspaper, both Ukrainian and German officers said that the maintenance of these German tanks is very difficult and in Combat conditions wear out 10 times faster than maneuver and exercise conditions.

This German commission, which visited this Leopard tank repair center before Christmas, saw a significant number of tanks that were simply He was surprised that they needed to be repaired due to mechanical and electronic problems rather than being damaged in battle.

Spiegel wrote in this report: “It seems that the biggest problem of the German tanks that They are in the service of the Ukrainians, there are no enemy attacks or gunfire from the Russians, and their damage is caused by other defects.”

In this report, it was stated that the number of Leopard tanks that are damaged in Ukraine are technically comparable to the number destroyed by Russian soldiers. Leopard tanks shipped to Ukraine have been plagued by detailed logistics, a lack of spare parts, and poorly translated technical documents. Even in Lithuania, which is far from the front line of the Ukrainian war, mechanics are forced to improvise because they do not know how to repair Leopard tanks.

A German officer in an interview. He admitted to the Spiegel magazine that these tanks wear out much faster in wartime than in peacetime. This officer stated: We can say that according to the experience of the German army in Mali, The wear and tear that a Leopard tank gets after traveling 10,000 km in war conditions is equivalent to the wear and tear that the same tank gets after traveling 100,000 km in peacetime.

Spiegel also wrote Another problem of Leopards in Ukraine is the need for complex maintenance of these tanks and necessarily in the factory.

A member of the German commission who traveled to Lithuania said: “The efforts made by the army agents Ukraine had to repair the Leopards, it has caused more damage to these combat tanks. The bottom of these tanks are fragile and cause them to fail in war conditions, which is considered a disaster, and Ukrainian soldiers are forced to constantly monitor this part of the German tanks.

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