German mobile artillary being loaded for transport to Ukraine.
Fars New Agency – July 30, 2022
German artillery guns are breaking down a month after they were delivered to Ukraine, Der Spiegel reported on Friday.
Some of the seven Panzerhaubitze 2000 guns sent to Ukraine at the end of June are showing signs of “wear and tear”, the German news site reported, citing anonymous sources. Some of the hardware is displaying error messages and are in need of repair.
The German military believes that the problems stem from the sheer number of shells fired on a daily basis by Ukrainian forces, which is damaging the howitzers’ loading mechanism. Discharging 100 rounds per day is considered high-intensity use, the report noted, adding that the Ukrainians are firing “far more” than this number.
Despite apparently overloading the German guns, Kiev’s forces are still firing only a fraction of the shells that the Russian military is sending in return. Ukrainian officials stated earlier this month that their guns were going through 6,000 shells per day, compared to Russia’s 20,000. That workload is not distributed over an equal number of artillery pieces either, with Russia fielding 15 for every Ukrainian one.
With ammo stocks running low, Ukraine has also attempted to fire incompatible ammunition from the German howitzers, Der Spiegel reported.
After learning that its guns couldn’t fire high-precision ammunition, the German military has since sent spare parts to remedy the situation, the report claimed.
Berlin is also reportedly working to set up a repair center in Poland to get the howitzers back in action.
The Panzerhaubitze 2000s are not the only foreign weapon to seemingly be failing on the Ukrainian battlefield. Captured Ukrainian troops have described the Javelin missile launchers – shoulder-fired units sent by both the UK and the US – as “completely useless” in urban combat, while soldiers are reportedly encountering battery issues with the NLAW “making it impossible to use”.
Germany’s Gepard anti-aircraft tanks, of which five have been given to Ukraine, have encountered compatibility issues with their Norwegian ammunition too, Der Spiegel noted. This mixing and matching of weapons systems from different suppliers has been identified by British and American analysts as presenting a “serious challenge” for Kiev.
> Some of the hardware is displaying error messages and are in need of repair.
Check if it’s plugged in and flush the cookies.
What a bunch of dumbasses the human race are. I’d love to see these idiots transported back to WW2 with their ‘computer’ and let the men with machines that they could actually repair and that didn’t need ‘reboots’ have at them.
> This mixing and matching of weapons systems from different suppliers has been identified by British and American analysts as presenting a “serious challenge” for Kiev.
The gun runners in blighty ‘forgot’ to supply them with a manual. They could give them any old apple manual — “only apple products should ever be used with this apple product – all other ways are unsupported”.
> Stupidity, noun, trusting anyone that speaks english, a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience. See naivety.
thats very good ! SEND THEM JUNK !
“MIXING weapons from DIFFERENT suppliers has been IDENTIFIED by British and American analysts as presenting a “SERIOUS CHALLENGE” for Kiev.”
Geee… I wonder how LONG it took DUMB Yank & THICK Brit “ANAL-ysts” to figure that one out!!
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blight says: “What a bunch of dumbasses the human race are.” That should be, “What a bunch of dumbasses the human race is.”
German weapons were always shite… Much is made of kraut wunderwaffen but most heavy armour was antiquated ..repurposed… unreliable and over engineered ..
for example the Panzer and Tiger tank were over armoured and under gunned (to begin with).. Though of course much better than the Yankee and Limey rubbish because Germans operated them…
the T34 was a game changer…. but the Germans decimated ten times what they lost regardless of the superiority of Russkie armour…. because of course Germans operated them..
and irregardless of German hardware failings…if they had shot the imbeciles further up the German command chain and supplied those excellent German operators… instead of ‘wasting’ their most valuable resource…
Europe would be a much better place….nowadays…
NB: Yes..yes… you may well have noticed a wee tautology hidden within my scrawl.. (but no mixed metaphors)…
l hope you enjoyed it as much as l did..
As I’ve written on here before:
Its all a setup from the start. The West isn’t sending Ukraine anything of significant value to contribute to ‘victory’. Its similar to the ‘Cold War’ where the West was purportedly ‘anti-Communist’ but was actually subsidizing the economy of the USSR. They’re both (NATO/Russia) in on it together to exterminate Aryans in Ukraine & demolish their nation–to eliminate the threat of a potential fascist white Ethnostate from ever materializing…that’s all its about…figure it out, if you can.
Perhaps the Ukrainian military should ask Germany if they have any of the superb 88’s from WW2 still lying around.
Nein! Du hast nicht fallowed ze instructions correctly, schweinhund!
Postscript:
Interesting contrast– how the Allied scum (USA/UK) made certain their Russian Commies in WWII received the best military machinery via ‘Lend-Lease’ to combat white nationalist Germany; but now send the white nationalist Ukrainians inferior inconsequential equipment to counter the Commie invasion..
@ Stephen..
Yes… early in the war and the Africa campaign the 88’s destroyed the British confidence in their waltzing ‘Mathildas’… (they were engaging the wops initially and had good results)..
Then they ran into Gerry…
and as with most of these wartime escapades there is always some enterprising German hero in the midst of it all …making the most of a repurposed weapon or unorthodox strategy with a handful of soldiers… (see Operation BattleAxe)..
(Halfaya..Wilhelm Bach{of course} )…
This is what happens when you have a multicultural work force. In America, we have government mandated affirmative action, in other words, hiring quotas favoring nonwhites and women. Incompetence in all endeavors is at an all time high and getting worse everyday. So, it’s not surprising, the once superlative German manufacturing is suffering with an influx of nonwhites into the once pristine White population of Germany.
@DICARLO..Agreed, post of the day.
This evening ze mighty Germany ladies football team managed to lose 2-1 to “The Lionesses” the English ladies football team. The passion, determination and skill exhibited by the English and the sheer patriotism of thee players and home crowd at Wembley was incredible.
WTF? I hear the naysayers moan.
Well, despite years of political scandal and lawbreaking by members of Parliament and ‘others’ plus the demonic covid moneyspinner the people of England have raised their heads in pride at the success of “The Lionesses”.
Were I one of TPTB I might be a little concerned that the corner has been turned.
It seems to be a bad time to be continuously hoodwinking people who are finally waking from their slumbering and not only asking questions but working out the ‘game’ plan.
@ATaff
re “..,the people of England have raised their heads in pride at the success of “The Lionesses”.”
Fact Checked version:
“THICK Brits have raised their heads in pride at the success of their ” Lesbian Bull Dykes”.
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Putin is a Zionist as much as Zelinski. The land in Ukraine is being cleared. Who is going to move in? Isn’t this the reason for the war
@Frankly….don’t you know? millions of apes & wogs will be moving in…
chesterton–irrespective, or regardless, not that other one, but you identified it?