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In Major Escalation, Germany Approves Delivery Of Infantry Carrier ‘Tanks’ To Ukraine
Zubu Brothers ^ | 3-31-2022

Posted on 04/01/2022 10:22:33 AM PDT by blam

In a significant escalation that is sure to have huge impact not only on the prospect for direct Russia-NATO military confrontation but also Europe’s energy crisis and natural gas showdown with Moscow, Germany has approved “tanks” for Ukraine.

“Germany has approved the delivery of 56 combat tanks to Ukraine, a German defense ministry spokesperson told CNN Friday,” according to a breaking report. But more specifically these are in actuality ‘infantry fighting vehicles’ – and lighter than what CNN is referencing as conventional “combat tanks”.

The ministry described to CNN that “The tanks, which are type Pbv 501, stem from the Cold War-era East German army and had been sold to Sweden, then resold to the Czech Republic, who will deliver them to Ukraine.”

Final approval is expected to come pending review by the country’s Federal Security Council, as stipulated under the German War Weapons Control Act.

The 56 PbV-501 armored personnel carriers are expected to be equipped with cannons and machine guns. Reuters details the nature of the heavy armored vehicles as follows:

Germany has approved the delivery to Ukraine of several dozen infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) that originally belonged to the former communist East Germany amid criticism that Berlin is not sending enough military aid to Kyiv.

Berlin has given the green light for 56 vehicles of the type PbV-501 to be passed on from a Czech company to Kyiv, a spokesman for the defense ministry said on Friday.

So Germany has gone in a little over a month from being ‘neutral’ on weapons for foreign conflict, refusing to allow even third parties from shipping German-produced weapons to Ukraine, to now shipping some serious heavy military machinery.

For all the harping everywhere on Germany over military aid to Ukraine, they’re the first ones to send (or rather, approve sending ex-theirs) infantry fighting vehicles for Ukraine. Great EU collaboration of MS involved (🇨🇿🇩🇪). No, it’s not a tank, despite the turret. pic.twitter.com/p2RtX2wS3o

— Jakub Jaraczewski (@J_Jaraczewski) April 1, 2022

And even though these old east German troop carriers will do little to stand up to Russia’s actual tank units, Kiev is likely to seize on this as at least a start leading possibly to the transfer of more up-to-date combat tanks from the West capable of blunting Russian infantry.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bringbackthedraft; escalation; germqany; reddiaperdoperbabies; tanks; ukraine
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Will Germany 'march' into Russia and turn the gas valves back on?

1 posted on 04/01/2022 10:22:33 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

The West continues to push us into WWIII


2 posted on 04/01/2022 10:24:26 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: blam
Will Germany 'march' into Russia and turn the gas valves back on?

The krauts can do whatever their little goose-stepping hearts want. This isn't America's problem.

3 posted on 04/01/2022 10:25:39 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: blam

“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”
– William Randolph Hearst, January 25, 1898


4 posted on 04/01/2022 10:26:54 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: blam

Will Germany ‘march’ into Russia and turn the gas valves back on?


It appears they don’t remember how well that worked the last time they tried it.


5 posted on 04/01/2022 10:27:49 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: blam
Need a snappy-looking German officer to instruct the Ukrainians in the maintenance and operation of the tanks.

Hans Gudegast, where are you now?

Regards,

6 posted on 04/01/2022 10:28:05 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: blam

LOL, sending more archaic Russian garbage. Kinda smart though. Now it’s up to Ukraine to get rid of the hulks.


7 posted on 04/01/2022 10:28:49 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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Might be gold for gas now.


8 posted on 04/01/2022 10:35:37 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: blam

It’s time to return some of the German missiles to the original sender. I heard they do wonders for the high-speed trains.


9 posted on 04/01/2022 10:37:52 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: blam

Gas is flowing today from Russia. Putin’s bluff was called again by the Germans.


10 posted on 04/01/2022 10:39:05 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: alexander_busek

He will be celebrating his 81st b’day Sunday and his 42nd season as Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless.


11 posted on 04/01/2022 10:41:29 AM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: ChuckHam

Maybe the Russians will roll out some vintage T-34 tanks to remind Germany what happened the last time German Tanks were in Ukraine.


12 posted on 04/01/2022 10:42:37 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: ChuckHam
LOL, sending more archaic Russian garbage.

I have been surprised by just how poorly their armor has preformed.

The reactive armor on their tanks is a bad joke for their crews. It doesn't seem to do anything but attract munitions. They might as well hang boxes of Lucky Charms on the tanks.

13 posted on 04/01/2022 10:49:05 AM PDT by usurper
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To: blam

One nuke could ruin your whole day!
my sympathy for woke German idiots has evaporated.
sanctions are backfiring
stupid,stupid,stupid


14 posted on 04/01/2022 10:49:21 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: srmanuel
"Maybe the Russians will roll out some vintage T-34 tanks to remind Germany what happened the last time German Tanks were in Ukraine."

July 13, 1943.

Largest Tank Battle In History Ends

I was born 5 months later.

15 posted on 04/01/2022 10:50:15 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Armor 6–33 mm (0.24–1.30 in) welded rolled steel

Designed 1961–1965

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BMP-1_variants#Sweden

Manufactured in Czechoslovakia, deployed to East Germany, sold to Sweden, now to Ukraine via Czech Republic firm.


16 posted on 04/01/2022 10:53:49 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: ChuckHam

Of course, the pictures are of no help. Just stock shots.

The cited article (Zubu Brothers?) indicates they are ex-GDR BMPs. Not clear if they are BMP-1s or BMP-2s. So the Germans are giving the Ukrainians 56 vehicles that may be as much as 32 years old (or older). Swell.

Hopefully, the German long-term storage program for these vehicles was better than the Russian one was for theirs.

BTW, 56 BMPs is about 1 mechanized infantry battalion’s worth of vehicles.


17 posted on 04/01/2022 11:05:09 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
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To: BiglyCommentary
Gas is flowing today from Russia.

...and rubles are flowing to Russia, so everyone is happy.

18 posted on 04/01/2022 11:16:28 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: mac_truck

No they are not.


19 posted on 04/01/2022 11:17:32 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Sirius Lee
The krauts can do whatever their little goose-stepping hearts want.

1. They're not "krauts." They're Germans.

2. They don't "goose-step." Those were the Nazis, who are long gone. Do you like it when someone equates all Americans with slaveowners?

3. The U.S. calls the shots for NATO, especially for Germany. If Germany is doing this, it's at the behest of the Neocons controlling Biden.

20 posted on 04/01/2022 11:20:33 AM PDT by Angelino97
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