Re <<FUBAR>>
W/r to Message 33813781
Germany's Scholz Resists Sending "Quickly Available" Tanks To Ukraine: 'Could Lead To Nuclear War' Turns out per ‘oops the Swiss did it and doing it again’, and a supply chain issue w/o the Covid complications
bloomberg.com
Swiss Veto German Request to Export Ammo to Ukraine, Newspaper Says (10:30 a.m.) Neutral Switzerland has held up German arms deliveries to Ukraine by refusing to allow the re-export of certain Swiss-made ammunition, SonntagsZeitung reported.
The ammunition produced in Switzerland is used in Marder infantry fighting vehicles made by German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, according to the newspaper.
Rheinmetall has asked Germany’s government to approve the export of 100 Marder tanks to Ukraine, Welt am Sonntag reported on Friday. The company didn’t immediately respond a request for comment.
Germany’s Scholz Focuses Ukraine Policy on Avoiding Nuclear War
I guess there is little point having Germany shipping Marder en.wikipedia.org fighting vehicles to Ukraine without required Swiss munition, and short of the diesel that was 30% imported from Russia which now is only available by exchange of gold / roubles produced in Russia. A fair guess.
In such a setup, unclear what the armchair strategists were thinking, to …
- denude Ukraine of nukes
- encourage Ukraine to rebel against its past sovereign and big customer as well as supplier
- rug-pull on Ukraine
- not ship the needed tanks
- not make available the pair-trade munitions,
- encourage the Ukraines to fight on
- whilst continuing to fund the Russian attack by purchase of energy so own folks can continue as before with hot showers, and
- demand that China and India break trade with Russia, give India a free pass and go hard on China, the China that is only answerable to the Chinese and no other
I trust I summed up the setup correctly?
Re diesel, an Ukrainian import and specifically from Russia, and necessary for most varieties of tanks except possibly only the Swedish S tank that might still be warehouses mothballed, assuming the Swedes feel braver than Teams USA, Switzerland, Germany etc etc
Swedish S tank en.wikipedia.org , that which entails a lot of good-enough thinking but outdated in this age of drones and thermobaric bombs and bomblettes
A very pretty tank used to be good with positional defense, a total crew of 2 (two), with a driver and commander who also pulls trigger on the auto-loader main gun as well as the machine gun, sporting either a gas turbine or Diesel engine but I believe can accept both types of fuel somehow if memory serves, with each of the road wheels between the sprockets geared to the engine through complicated but sturdy drivetrain to be powered (so should the tracks be blown off and some of the wheels blown away the tank can still move and move fast), … etc etc … it was just wonderful but unclear it ever saw action anywhere.
Commander has own set of driving controls.
Third crew added later with driving controls facing rear, for faster ‘fighting in the other direction’
A clever design
I remember from model building :0)
The gun can only be aimed by turning the tank and lowering and raise the hydraulics.
A beauty, but expensive beauty
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