Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @deaidua: Ukraine will receive more newly produced Gepard/Cheetah ammunition and therefore secures its midterm needs! Rheinmetall has received a contract for 180,000 rounds of HEI-T ammunition financed by the German government. The deliveries to #Ukraine are planned to start in 2026.
Rheinmetall was already contracted to supply 300,000 rounds — 50% APDS-T & 50% HEI-T — to Ukraine in 2023. Delivery of the 150,000 APDS-T rounds was completed in December and the first HEI-T rounds have already been delivered, which means that production must already have been fully switched.
With the planned delivery of 180,000 rounds from 2026, it should also be clear that most or all of the missing 135,000 rounds of HEI-T ammunition from the first contract will be delivered to Ukraine this year.
RT @deaidua: Ukraine will receive more newly produced Gepard/Cheetah ammunition and therefore secures its midterm needs! Rheinmetall has received a contract for 180,000 rounds of HEI-T ammunition financed by the German government. The deliveries to #Ukraine are planned to start in 2026.
Rheinmetall was already contracted to supply 300,000 rounds — 50% APDS-T & 50% HEI-T — to Ukraine in 2023. Delivery of the 150,000 APDS-T rounds was completed in December and the first HEI-T rounds have already been delivered, which means that production must already have been fully switched.
With the planned delivery of 180,000 rounds from 2026, it should also be clear that most or all of the missing 135,000 rounds of HEI-T ammunition from the first contract will be delivered to Ukraine this year.
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @deaidua: Rheinmetall CEO Papperger has confirmed to the FAZ that the first Lynx IFV has been delivered to Ukraine at the end of 2024. The IFV will now be trialled in #Ukraine before a series order can be placed.
Still, there are no details on how such an order would be financed. After all, a corresponding order with a reasonable number of infantry fighting vehicles would cost hundreds of millions or potentially billions of euros.
RT @deaidua: Rheinmetall CEO Papperger has confirmed to the FAZ that the first Lynx IFV has been delivered to Ukraine at the end of 2024. The IFV will now be trialled in #Ukraine before a series order can be placed.
Still, there are no details on how such an order would be financed. After all, a corresponding order with a reasonable number of infantry fighting vehicles would cost hundreds of millions or potentially billions of euros.