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Old 03-07-23, 06:40 AM   #1933
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The Boxer APC is a German development, and was sold, amongst others, to Australia, where it is build in license.

The Bundeswehr now wants to buy 100 Boxers from the Australian production plants becasue the Australians can get the order fulfilled much faster than the Germans.




Meanwhile it got known that the tank batallion specified for supplying and holding ready 30 MBTs for NATOs very high readiness quick reaction force cannot fulfill this duty, and for the whole year will have only 14-20 tanks ready, the others will be in maintenance and repair. The batallion has - on paper - a strength of 40 Leopards. That means the "Klarstand" (ready-for-mission status) for many months this year again will be not even 50%. They now try to cannibalize Leopards from other units. But so many other units with Leopards there are not.



Gimme back the 80s. In the mid-80s the BW was at the height of its capabilities and potentials, was seen by many as the best conscript army in NATO. Today? It is unreliable, incapable of way too many tasks, and the running joke at NATO HQ.
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