Germany purchases spare parts tanks for Ukraine
Date
8/10/2023 5:41:52 AM
(MENAFN) German protection giant Rheinmetall has bought 49 mothballed Leopard 1 war tanks from a Belgian weapons dealer for usage in Ukraine, a representative for the firm informed a news agency on Wednesday. The automobiles are allegedly in such unfortunate state that many are going to be right merely for replacement chunks.
The representative stated that 30 of the tanks are going to be recommissioned and bestowed upon Kiev, with the rest seemingly disassembled for chunks. A German administration representative stated that they would make a portion of an army assistance bundle declared by Defense Minister Oscar Pistorius throughout a NATO conference in Lithuania the previous month.
Belgian weapons dealer, Freddy Versluys, declared that the auction of the tanks on Tuesday, informing numerous press sources that an unidentified European district had bought them for a secret rate.
The Belgian administration debated purchasing the Leopards with Versluys previously this year, however, eventually declined to pay the EUR500,000 (USD549,000) each tank that he was demanding. Belgian Defense Minister, Ludivine Dedonder, depicted the requested rate as “unreasonable,” taking into account that Versluys had purchased the tanks as “scrap metal.”
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