How fast can Germany get a batch of old Leopard 1 tanks ready for the frontline? | DW News
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2023
- One of Germany's biggest arms manufacturers has confirmed the purchase of 50 Leopard 1 tanks from a Belgian company.
The tanks are old and will be refurbished in Germany. They are expected to be sent to Ukraine to strengthen supplies at the frontline. Germany faced criticism early in the war for being too slow in its supply of arms to Ukraine, but Berlin has since ramped up its support, supplying the first of the Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine in March this year.
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Leopard 1 is not an earlier version of Leopard 2, they are totally different vehicles. The only thing they really share is a name.
@@sergueivergounov1961At least the crews can get out of Leopards if they're hit, while your Russian crews burn like candles and the T-tanks throw their turrets sky-high.
@@nobodyisbestThe crews usually all die. Either through the hits of their upper weakspots or in the middle of the mine fields that they are not capable to leave.
When a tank is stopped - it always gets some control shots fired at them by artillery.
Leopard 1A5 has same optics and fire-control system as a 2A4, its early 80s level basically, far above T-62s and T-55 and roughly equal to early T-72 models. Not a match for T-72B3 and newer of course, but still useful.
@@MetallicReg Nonsense, the crew can walk over the trackmarks that they've left.
@@nobodyisbest You seem not to have seen actual footage from the frontlines.
They have no chance.
50 tanks of any type aren't a game changer, but 50 Leopard 1s are better than none. If "outdated" gear was not useful at all, Russia wouldn't be digging out its T-54s and 55s. Regardless how old any of these are, you don't want their guns pointed at you, and the fact that there are better ones out there dosn't change that if you don't happen to be sitting in one of those.
They will be refurbishing them with modern electronics, costing about $400k each. They'll have good optics and comms if I recall correvtly
Ukraine needs more men at this point 😂..we have seen them getting cooked in those leopard 2 and Bradley's 😢
@@ivanvarela3215lol no, its lie for another corruption.
The A5 variant is late 70s early 80s, its not too bad.
Lots of money changing hands! Lots of employment, lots of money being made by so many countries 🤝
Enough of leopards, we want to see Abrams, challengers and Leclercs 😂😂
Why?
Ukraine's A ttacking Donetsk Republic since 2014
SupportBully?
The US have 3700 Abrams tanks in storage. That would be a game changer!
@@user-cv8xw8zn5uno, the russian backed terrorist group was attacking Ukrane since 2014. Read the U.N. OHCHR report.
This is war crime! It’s like giving a soldier Conan sword to go fight Rambo with machine guns🤣🤣🤣
Russia is using T54s
Looks like Nato would fight Russia till the last Ukrainian
@@MilitantPacifist69 we can take care of our problems with China, they don't lecture us from where we get Oil or buy weapons
@@MilitantPacifist69
NATO's only expressed strategy for Ukraine, is to keep shoving a knife into their hand, hoping Russia wears out its AK shooting them. Thats what you support.
And now sending old Leopards??😂😂😂😂😂
Panthers and tigers get ready
@@konstantinbush295 a new cemetery is ready for them
It's amazing how close they parked those tanks next to each other. Mad skills.
Germans being germans i guess
I noticed that right away as well. Skills like this is probably where the nickname “square head” came from to describe a German man in Canada when I was young 😊
;-) Have you ever seen trucks being loaded onto a car ferry in Italy? In comparison, they do the same thing much faster, more accurately and for far less money. And make sure to not run over a stray dog ;-)
This is usual thing for technics of such kind...They are not wheeled one. Probably you never drive tractors.
Yep. Hard to really ignore that. It almost looks like an online model render they are so perfectly in with each other.😎👌🏼
OVER THE TROUBLE.
We went from "game changers" to well.... "it's old but still works"
It started with “we can smash the Russian defence and be in Crimea in 3 days”, or even - the Russian will run away even without fight lol
🤣
Leopard 1 tanks are excellent tanks for use in the second line behind Leopard 2, Bradleys and challengers.
Hhahahahaha nice joke mate you are sitting on your bed talking as if you are a war strategist
In case u dont know leopard 2 are suffering in Ukraine same as Bradley
@@prizefighter8699 Maybe you underestimate my military years.🤐🤐
@@prizefighter8699 everything is suffering in this war, otherwise Russia would have really took ukraine in 3 days if bling tanks was all that was needed.
And Panther IV can be used in the third line! 🤣
Even the old unwanted stored tanks, can be useful.
Better than nothing.
1943 GermanTigers moving east
2023 GermanLeopards moving east.
GermanyNeverLearns :D
no discounts
@@user-cv8xw8zn5u bot
@@user-cv8xw8zn5u says the vatnik living in a country stuck in the past. Ukraine isn't your colony, your leader is an old and scared copy of a czar and your life is miserable. Your issues are your own, don't export them to your neighborhood to avoid fixing them.
@@budyn1412 said by a bot 🤡👈
50 old tanks nearly half of which are unusable leaving 30 tanks needing repair that may be available in six months. Really a non announcement and a waste of time.
I have an old buick that i could donate. It's a bit of a tank.
It would have been better to buy Jordan’s challenger 1’s they are far better protected than L1’s
Ebay lot, Fifty used Leopard 1 tanks… (for parts only)
Great way to get rid of unwanted inventories
Absolutely. These machines will finally get to do what they were made for
@@viliussmproductions Yes, they are very nice metal coffins. These tanks as survivable as most of the wheeled personel transports Ukraine is getting, anything that touches this tank, takes it out.
@@eth_saver Like the IFVs that Ukrainians are recovering after mine hits, or the ones being able to drive away despite a hole in the armor? The Russian vehicles will likewise be taken out by most things the Ukrainians will launch at them, difference being how likely you're able to hit the enemy, how ergonomic the vehicle is and so on. A leopard 1 with a "modern" upgrade package will have hardware vastly superior to what the Russians are pulling out of their scrapyards.
Thank you Germany.
Tank you*
Гитлер капут!
@@user-jr8vh7vc8m Das is gut.
@@sasausa2952 американский военно-промышленный комплекс -угроза миру!
Those leopard 1 tanks are in very good condition, but they are somewhat obsolete. But they are in such a wonderful condition that they are worth the effort to update them. Those tanks are among the best Leopard 1 tanks available, having been maintained in operational condition till 2014, and since then they have been stored and cared for, protected from the weather (and looters) inside a proper warehouse.
I have seen other tanks, stored outside (like italian Leo 1 tanks), unguarded. Those tanks are problematic and need a full extremely costly and time consuming rebuild.
Decommissioned tanks are usually stored in the open, because if cost. But it causes the tanks to deteriorate extremely quickly. Those ex-belgian tanks did not suffer that fate.
The ex-belgian leopards are a very good buy by the German government, they bought tanks that need relatively little work done on them, apart from updating they fighting capacity and some up-armoring.
I don’t understand why the press, in their ignorance, describe the tanks as being in a bad condition. That is simply wrong.
These Leopard 1 tanks were sold for around 15000€/each to Mr Versluys. I am curious how much is paid now for these old vehicles.
The Belgian Government refused to pay the price. That is why Germany finally bought them.
During the late 1980s, a single Leopard 1A6 prototype was tested with additional turret armor and the 120mm L/44 smoothbore gun. Unfortunately, the Leopard 1A6 project was shelved in favor of the Leopard 2. How feasible would it be to upgrade any of these old Leopard 1s with the same 120mm L/44 smoothbore gun used by both the Leopard 2 and Abrams?
I dont think 1980s tank designs are still workable in a war like where everything is drones, mines, artillery and cruise missiles.
the chance to get hit by any of the above is probably much higher than a standard infantry rpg
A company in Flensburg owns ca.100 Ex-danish Leopard 1 A5, Rheinmetall owns 88 Leopard 1A5 and now 50 Ex-belgian ones.The question is how many of them can be refurbished and how fast.
150-180 of them would be not a game changer but quite helpful,mainly to release more modern Tanks for offensive purposes. The old Leopard 1 could be used to guard the border to Belarus for example.Firing control of this version is on par with older Leopard2 A4 .
Most of this private companys bought them 15K euro piece now they want 1mln euro piece.
And how many ukrainians will die in them. When will people stop supporting war? How many wars have you supported? Syria? Libya? Iraq? Afghanistan?
Why do people keep believing in wars, and supporting every war they are being sold.
Probably half a million dead already, and you still keep supporting death & destruction.
Thats capitalism.But it is putin who makes this companys richer.Angebot und Nachfrage.@@kkrolik2106
Yea this is no game changer, but tanks are needed!
The war is lost for Ukraine and the west. You cannot reverse this with Leopards 1s. Russia is now rolling towards Kupiansk, then it will be Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, then Kharkhov.
The Ukraine is destined to become the military equipment salvage yard of the east.
much like Russia, but theirs are steam driven...
@@lauchlanguddy1004 That’s new technology for Ukrainians!
@@sergueivergounov1961 imagine, those people pushed Russia to a defensive battle
@@DSan-kl2yc Almost like a war… 🤷🏼♂️
@@Anon-xu3mn no question it's a war. Except for Russia, who's in denial about what they're doing.
unless fielded in sufficient numbers, the leo 1 won't make much a difference.
every barrel makes a difference with good soldiers... unlike the opposition..
This so-called counter offensive is a flop of Bidenesque dimension.
shhh, just don't say that to Ukrainians
German precision. All tanks lined up to millimetric perfection🤣🤣
Belgian, but they are distant cousins.
Its the thing they should of done since the start. Russia is using mostly old tanks (T-62, T-72 and now even T-54s are seen by the seperatists). Instead of sending picemal of modern tanks ,they should of pulled out of storage large amounts of old tanks that ware ment to fight those.
Good examples are Lepard 1 , M-60s , Challenger 1 ext. There are thonse of those in storage.
leapords are just like made of papers for Russian
What nonsense.
Russians won't even bother putting these on a flatbed to drive through Mariupol on their way to the tank museum near Moscow. Not worth the cost in fuel.
I remember months ago when you showed this warehouse
''Those who supported, appeased or ignored Vladimir Putin must be shamed for creating a monster.''
Garry Kasparov
1943 GermanTigers moving east
2023 GermanLeopards moving east.
GermanyNeverLearns :D
Does anybody know what happened
to the last Batch of leopard tanks that
went to Ukraine, it seems they have
an abyss in Ukraine swallowing tanks
They are holding them back. Otherwise, we'd see triumphant Russian bots posting videos of their demise all over the internet.
Tasty leopard fry 😋
Mostly destroyed or in need of repair
The people that say that the russians use museum tanks to explain why the west is sending not modern tanks but museum ?🤣🤣🤣
Jeez why don't they give it a rest. Stop feeding it.
Because the Russians wont leave Ukraine until theyre all dead, they chose this path, they should stop whining about it
Ukraine needs all the help it can get.
There is a reason after being invaded by a superpower right next door 18 months ago the Ukraine is still around .
@@Crashed131963 what are you implying? the fact that Ukraine still stands because of equipment? cause you couldn't be more wrong mate. Ukraine still stands because of its soldiers, not the equipment. The ukranians are the best soldiers in the world. The only 2 countries in Europe that can stop Russia from advancing West are Poland and Ukraine. The rest either have too few numbers or a weaker mentality. Ukraine would already be free if the USA would have asked what Ukraine needs and given them all they need from day 1, but the US just doesn't want that. They will continue to stall until the point where Ukraine will be forced to agree on a truce and give up their eastern and southern territories.
Kyiv A ttacking Donetsk Republic since 2014
lol you mean russia. because ukraine is owning them
Ukraine urgently needs to sober up
This should've happened a year ago.
Why, so we could get the crews killed off quicker?
Main battle Tanks are obsolete. Especially without air support. They can be damaged or
Immobilized by a super cheap drones.
I still find it unsettling hearing Germany having anything to do with tanks.
Keep them coming: Leo 2 is definitely preferred, but any tank is better than no tank. Russia went into the war with something like 2500 tanks in operation and 15000 in storage against around 1100 in Ukraine. The west have promised maybe 500 units half being ex-soviet from Poland and Czech republic. There is something like 2000 Leo 2 in Europe, give a quarter or half to Ukraine and get Rheinmetall to expand production as much as possible.
nicely say please, beggar
Who is going to pay for replacing a quarter of the European tank fleet?
@lani6647 It's much cheaper than paying for the increased energy costs. Besides they are made in Europe, so whether my tax money goes to social security or to running a tank factory doesn't matter much. Ukraine has close to 1 million men dedicated full time to this effort - we just need to dedicate a few ten thousand to production to help them out.
"give a quarter or half to" - Who is going to pay for that?
"It's much cheaper than paying for the increased energy costs." - No, it's not.
@anon2034 According to visual economics, EU countries spend €800 billion on Energy subsidies the first year of the war - that's something like 10 times the support given to Ukraine.
Thank you so much to everyone involved in supporting my Ukraine🙏 Without your help our resistance wouldn’t be possible ! 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇱🇹🇵🇱🇨🇦
Don't forget the Canadian flag.
Supporting?
Ukraine's incompetence is letting all those weapons burn if not captured by the Russians to be sent to Iran and China...
Will Ukraine pay for the FIASCO?
@@sergueivergounov1961 Many people now realize that it was wrong not to help Georgia.
Thank you Ukraine for fighting Putin !
I think Rheinmetall is upgrading the size of ammunition into the standard munition which is being upgraded into 120mm
The Leo1 is helplessly outdated. The thickest armor on it is weaker than the T-55 front glacis, anything 30mm and above will penetrate. You are sentencing the tank crews to death by fire instead of actually aiding them towards peace.
Art of war expect the unexpected a leopard 1 tank with a leopard 3 refurbishment ❤ yeah I’ll leave that there for a while 😮❤❤❤❤
@0:14 Germany,WWII,again
not going to happen. Leo1s will get refurbished and brought to Leo1A5 standard if they are not at that standart and thats it.
Mid 1980s tech
Dear Vladimir Putin : Tank you for being the single best arms and weapons provider to Ukraine whenever the ORC's run and abandon cut and run posts and leave weapons behind. You are also the single best NATO/OTAN RECRUITER with once neutral Sweden and Finland joining NATO/OTAN. None of these accomplishments could we have achieved without you and for this we must tank you.
Sincerely yours : The Free and independent and Sovereign people of Ukraine. SLAVA 🇺🇦 UKRAINE
You have very strange ideas about freedom and independence.
Today's Ukraine is NOT FREE and IS NOT INDEPENDENT
It’s especially funny to read about your liberties, try to go to a new Maidan, and the SBU will give you a tour of the basements and methods of the Gestapo, and if you’re not lucky, they’ll dig somewhere in a landfill, as they have been doing for more than a year.
What do you call it? Struggling with coloborats?
And it is no less funny to read about the independence of Ukraine, even under the USSR, Ukraine was more independent than it is now.
De facto, Ukraine does not solve anything in this conflict, its destiny is to supply Ukrainians for the millstones of war
Dear Ukraine people I am very pleased to here this from you I would also like to thank you for your smart choice of choosing to join Nato this is causing a wonderful dimilitarization of Europe and uniting African,Middle Eastern and South American people against neoconservatist idiolgie of US and Europe we hope by 2024 people of Europe also realize the importance of a changed independent Europe
On behave of free people of the world
Glory to multipolaur world 🌎
jackiehardy : Anglais isn't your strong suit. Here (hear)? Idiologe (idealogue)? Multipolaur (Multi-polar)? Behave (behalf)?
@@jackhardy3905 lol
@@jackhardy3905Ah yes, the demilitarization that always accompanies increased military budgets and renewed interest in the armed forces. I'd like to see how far europe is demilitarized in 5 years😂
There were talks to buy and upgrade these exact same tanks a year ago. Such a long wait and many deaths since then.
We first heard of this cache a long time ago.
The more the better. Great tanks for infantry support and blazing trenches. Better than any of the infantry fighting vehicles.
M60's might be great addition to infantry brigades replacing T64s and T72s that are being lost in the battles.
You have absolutely zero clues what you're talking about.
when u said blazing trenches I immediately had to think of those old school ww2 flamethrowers.
That would definitely spread some horror among the enemy units...
@@vaterunser3879
And would be a blatant warcrime
hah, they bought them... probably paid like 5x what they were worth
You mean German or European tax payers?
@@kwalelalipimile3894 I don't know who, i just remember when this was talked at one point.. and the dude was selling these for a lot more than what they were worth. They were basically trash before this war.
Wheels are better than tracks - 😮. Wood slat barriers around armour combat vehicles are effective aganist ariel projectiles 😅
Get Greece in the Game 520 Leo 1A5 all active except 180 that are in short term storage ie 1week to reactivate and 350 active Leopards 2up to A6
Thanks so much Germany and all countries involved God bless all.victory 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
LOL…Don’t have a clue
Bravo Germany 🇩🇪👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The German Army has been waiting for 10 years for new tents. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Germany to refurbish these tanks.
@@rogerpennel1798 Ah last ones were delivered like most stuff before planned date that was announced.
+ Privat Companies that literally dillervers each year a lot of stuff to all other the world costumers vs State bureaucracy
@@rogerpennel1798 The German army will wait, cause Ukraine is protecting the entire Western civilization. In any case, Ukrainians think so
They will be good self propelled howitzers
I don't see why they can't be upgraded with modern optics to at least boost their survivability. I don't care who you are, you don't want to be on the other end of a Leopard 1s 105MM gun.
Also I read somewhere the Leopard 1a5 are capable of mounting the 120MM leopard 2 gun or some variation of it.
its about mines, drones and artillery strikes... not sure how modern optics gonna increase survivability.
At least they a stored in a big hall. That is better than the “open outdoor” Russian tank storage’s 🇺🇦🌻
Cope
Credit to Germany, slow to start but once in motion they deliver, well done
Thats what you get what became the most pacifist country after WW2 in Europe is betrayed by its 2nd biggest trading partner (Russia)
While there's room to improve... yeah, you have to hand it to Germany. The may be lagging behind Eastern and Northern European countries, but compared to other EU powerhouses like France, Italy and Spain, Germany is sending way more metal to help defend Europe
Lol what? You call old fossils they had to scrounge from Belgium "getting into motion?" Ukraine better sue for peace now then.
@@obelic71 3rd time's the charm?
Germany didn't want nothing to do with this war! That's why they was slow
Old tanks but still amight be a substitute for those old soviet tanks still on use but which have no more replacements availiable.
Let's give (buy) them modern ones. Although I think tanks are the weapons of the past. They worth less and less these days. E.g. without airpower a 8 m$ tank can be destoyed by a 200 k$ Javellin within minutes.
Why is Ukraine asking for tanks if they're useless?!
Utter rubbish, these heaps of scrap metal are not even any near the Soviet-era tanks that Ukraine was using before. someone is making money by selling scrap metal to Ukraine.
It makes me smile to hear folks complaining that Germany is not armed-to-the-teeth enough. Crazy times indeed.
A drama (film) has a period of time (short period or long period). If there is no peace agreement, the director should look for some investor to continue the drama become a long period of the drama 🤔😢🤒🤒. And I think Probably, the end of the director made a drama was the main actors become a winner or creating a peace. 😢🤔😔😔🙏
Germany also said it would deliver many leopard 2's yet most of them still haven't been send ....
Stop stalling 🛑
31 Tanks is NOTHING. Hello there’s a war
Ukraine needs 1000s of tanks and offensice vehicles. Sending M113s and supprt vehicles along with few hundred old/downgradedtanks isnt cutting it. Limited gains indicate we need to send more, a lot more.
Did you already sell all your assets and sent the proceeds to Ukraine? Why don’t you volunteer for the foreign legion? But your balls up on the chopping block in Bakhmut
Пакеты им нужны
How much money did germany spend in sending this tanks to Ukronazzis?
Besides the Leopard 1, is the M60 also a viable option for Ukraine?
This is already a discussing dating back to April last year and coming back regularly but nothing happened
Those older Leopard 1s are still much better than the soviet opponents. Russia supplies its forces with T-54/T-55s, with the oldest towed artillery and when Soigu was in NK, he asked for ammo for the rifle model 1908! Those Leos might be old but still work! Slava Ukraine!
You are responding to a B O T
mhhh not so much. Leopard 1 might be more capable than T-55, but every T-64, T-72 and T-80 will crush it.
most importantly Leopard 1 lacks armor protection.
It is protected vs auto cannons but every dedicated anti tank weapon, from an late 40´s RPG-2 to a modern RPG-29 will cleanly penetrate it on every combat distance.
not even talking about ATGM, Artillery or any large caliber guns.
Its armored wiith wet tissue paper in respect to protection and everything bigger than a .50cal will give it problems.
sign of true keyboard warrior amateurs who never used even a rifle: "western tanks are better, this tank is 1959 vs ours thats1985, our armour is thicker, theirs blow up more" etc etc
@@MilitantPacifist69And how many ukrainian dead soldiers?
Plus, they took about 20% of their land with all of the support that ukraine is getting from 50 countries.
Those tanks don't have armour. They will be steal coffin given the widely deployed anti tank mines
the more the better, as the saying goes
Yes dimilatarization of Europe is going well
@@jackhardy3905oh boi, sorry to break it to you but Europe isn't exactly demilitarizing 😅
@@NoHairMan don't even bother trying to break it to him, he's not here to listen to anything at all or to consider anything at all.
@@JohnnyCBCS ye that's one of the cookie cutter sentences russian bot post everywhere atm.
We thank Lancet drones after all, for its superiority.
They would be making Tractors for farmers but they need poor people who are hungry and depended on them.
wow those look exactly like the allied light tanks from C&C red alert lol, makes a lotta sense now
UGHHHHH......this war should've remained a backstory for a game and nothing more. Still expect some cheeky and uninhibited people to make a Ukraine-based mod out of it ...
This very different from red alet 2 alllied tanks
The foot dragging by the west before the counter offensive was unnecessarily slow. Yet, many are not still convinced that Ukraine should get the F16 , what a shame
🤡🤡🤡🤡
Please go to the frontlines and give them a hand, Ukraine need to bud
2elensky did claim that counter offensive need not be rushed.
Hmmm... 🤔 Seems kinda like Ukraine should be negotiating, huh?
Leopards 1&2 best kamikaze tanks whatsoever
how sad when one is too committed to destroy other struggling nations while sacrificing the lives of the many and sometimes to include even yourself.
Are they going to send tanks from the 60s against T-90s and Russian artillery? It will work
You mean all those 50 T90s that are operational ? 😂
Ukraine needs volume not only a few advanced tanks. Sending a modern tank into a minefield has a hefty price tag that you lose with a broken belt.
A great tank to be cooked in
There has to be some leftover Sherman Fireflies somewhere...
I am playing in “World of Tanks” on Leopard 1 more than a year. That tank can only compete with Soviet tank T-55 from 60s. Even T-62 Soviet tank is more advanced than Leopard 1. Even 12mm bullet can penetrate it.
50 tanks will be burnt in a day
German don't waste taxpayers money😂
How are the earlier tanks faring?
I mean the Leopard 2
They just keep dumping more and more armor into the sewers.
Leopard 1's won't stand much against any more modern T-series tanks, like the T-80 and T-90 since the 125mm guns could pen the armor of a Leo 1. And the Leopard 1 is equipped with a 105mm main gun which is relatively smaller than a 115mm gun and 125mm gun. The leopard would also fire APDS rounds instead of APFSDS (Difference you may ask? APDS stands for "Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot" while APFSDS is "Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot") APFSDS shells would probably have more penetration values and damage compared to APDS shells. So Leopard 1's would have some struggle against even T-55's and T-62's and don't even think about T-72, T-80's, and T-90's.
I am not trying to bias Russian tanks but the Leopard 1 is just obsolete, under armored, outpowered, and out gunned since it is a Cold War era tank.
More scrap metal for russia😂
In other words. These tanks will be in the front line in a best case scenario in 1 year.
Need to attach an engine first.
A year from now may be toooooo late.
First it is necessary to put an committee what to do if Russia attacks Germany.
The Russian soldiers need to wait for the next BBQ party then, coz the fire of the Leopard 2 and Bradley is already gone 😢
@@georgialeksandrov2080You can keep up with your BBQ, there are enough Russian tank set on fire each day ! So, don't worry , there is always a fire nearby !! And otherwise you can BBQ in Moscow, there will be more fires over there to ! 😅
I dont think the important point is supply speed, its maintenance (go Poland & Romania!) and quantity...
Without more sophisticated offense weapons this war is gonna go on for a few more years, so who got the longer breath?
The fact that they need to send these after they already sent Leopard 2s means only one thing....
Might as well send some pickup trucks, if Leopard 2 armor can't withstand Lancet hits Leopard 1s are just mobile coffins
Leopard 1 tank was made with lighter armor than other tanks of the era and its main power was it's speed. The war in Ukraine is about static fighting and attrition. The Leopard 1 will do horrible in this type of conflict unless it is up armored. What Ukraine needs is more long range artillery and HIMARS
Get some anti-mine vehicles, and the Leopard 1 will be fine.
@@Metoobie Mate have you not seen photo and videos of anti-mines armored vehicles/tanks using anti mines gears being destroyed by mines?
A tank is better than no tank. If you use something like a Javelin or anti-tank mines, even a Leopard 2 doesn't make a huge difference. Russia's big advantage is pure scale and a lot of reserves from the cold war area. Russia is also reactivating old T-54.
@@Critizens this.
Yes General
this has nothing to do with germany 😀 tanks will be refurbished and stored there, but this is all thanks to the Belgian company. So, this has nothing to do with the countries government. Germany isn't the worst story out there, I'd put much more emphasis on the USA, since they've been stalling deliveries of for example, the F-16s for the last 6-7 months
@0:14 Germany,WWII,again
Hope Ukraine will get the decent South Korean tanks sooner or later
@@aris95 south korea has their northern neighbour to worry about. They will be following the footsteps of the US - they won't be sending anything
It isnt the government but a German weapons company, Rheinmetall, which bought the Leo's and will deliver them to Ukraine.
@@lennardschneider6847 I know. But, knowing NATO, they like to take their sweet time with their deliveries. They will be possibly showing us the exact aid packages where these tanks will be sent on so that the russians don't need to spy on our information. It's really easy being the intelligence services from the russian perspective. These tanks still hold little weight if there's no air support being sent to Ukraine. Meaning, the US should be stepping up now, but still nothing will happen. These 50 tanks will accumulate to the next upcoming tank massacre
Great! Let's now send our M60 and M40s to replace them with newer ones for the Greek army!
😂
It's such a paltry sum of armor. Better than nothing I guess.
100% FALSE
Its *worse* than nothing, because everyone of those is going to be a multiple occupancy coffin.
NATO is sending a second batch of leos cause the first one was completely destroyed by Russians. Polite notice: prepare the third batch, cause the second batch will have the fate of the first one.
Thank you mr.general for that outstanding insight 🤡
who told you that?? ohh Russian trolls...ahahahahahhaha funny
@@lauchlanguddy1004 you need new tanks when you are out of old tanks (in this case the other way around), what's so funny?
You are watching too much Kreml prppaganda.
6 months to refurbish 30+ 60 year old tanks, why don’t you just build them new leopard 2s if you really want to help?
I would like to thank this Belgian company and the people responsible for sending these badly needed Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine. They will be put to good use.
Of yes being burned in the fields
@@jackhardy3905 could you please stay behind your part of the wall
Thank them? he made a huge profit flipping those... and why? so more people can die, current estimates at at half a million dead on this war.. and you still keep supporting war. Its a great solution to every problem.
Military strategy of Ukraine: "When we approach a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there",
Field Marshal of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny
Imagine using WW1 trench warfare tactics in today's modern age and employing WW1 & WW2 circa era rust bucket t-34's & t-44's and then expecting your Special Military Operation Blitzkrieg to go according to plan and to be over in a matter of days?
Desperation has kicked in
Agree, Putin must be pretty desperate.
Desperation kicked in a year ago.
Start negotiations you fools . It won't be better than this on the map for ukraine
There's no chance to 🛑 stop this bloody War...
Curious to see if leopard withstand javelin...Russian atgm has proven to destroy leopard2
A .50 BMG will penetrate their armor.
Another target practice for russian KA-52 Alligator and Kornet ATGM.
Bendigadig, well done.
Great co-operation... thanks to all parties! Slava Ukraine! Tanks of any kind are needed on the frontlines.
No, they need airpower not a few more obsolete tanks. Apache helicopters, F16's, and A10 warthogs.
@@tyharris9994 they need more tanks! Nothing I said was against getting airpower and long range missiles. Until they get that - they need more tanks.
Ukraine has already lost you need to surrender. You're just sending your men to their death
Are they going to refurbish the king tiger tanks too!?
They were all destroyed and handfull are on display in museums.
Soon in Ukraine.
There was a lot of them left, they ran out of fuel because of the blockade. @@codfusilli5879
Ukraine won't even have to paint the Balkenkreuz
The scrap metal dealers will make a fortune.
@@MilitantPacifist69 Possibly because there are hundreds of times more of them.