Posted on 01/16/2023 2:55:04 PM PST by Zhang Fei
” As an example a US M1A1 Thompson in 45ACP will sell for around $33,000.”
One was up for private estate sale, here in PA, pristine, extra mags for $60k. I passed on it.
Ukraine ping
oldguy1776: [Rheinmetall built the MG34 and the MG 42 General Purpose machine guns used in WW2. Our M60 was patterned off of that. It featured a changeable barrel and the MG42 fired up to 1200 rounds per minute.
My Father said that when you heard an MG42 go off you learned to duck real quick. Same thing with the MP40 sub machine gun.
I have shot both weapons and they were something else. There are very few left in existence in this country and they are all registered with the ATF and are not cheap to buy...if any owner even wants to sell one. As an example a US M1A1 Thompson in 45ACP will sell for around $33,000.
All of these are legal, depending on your state, but you definitely need some spare change to get one...:)]
If Scholz keeps on stonewalling, even on third party transfers to Ukraine, though, Rheinmetall may miss out on the ammo and parts procurement aspect of aid to Ukraine, never mind the cash purchases Ukraine ends up making. Assuming it wins, who is Ukraine going to reward with purchase orders - Germany, which balked every step of the way, or the Anglosphere, which has grudgingly but eventually transferred some of the arms needed? Leaving out the question of quid pro quo, who in his right mind would trust Germany as a weapons supplier in wartime, given its repeated hemming and hawing over supplying Ukraine? Scholz is doing a real number on Germany’s arms industry.
Kamil Galeev, a young Russian scholar, on the training center Rheinmetall helped construct in Russia, through shell companies:
“Measuring over 500 square kilometres, the state-of-the-art Russian army training centre in Mulino designed to train a reinforced mechanized infantry or armoured brigade”
rheinmetall-defence.com/en/rheinmetall…
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Mulino was modelled after the training center of Bundesehr in Altmarkt. In order to proceed with the construction, the Rheinmentall entered in the strategic partnership with Russian stated owned defence company Oboronservis Image
That was the high point of Serdyukov’s reform. Serdyukov tried to modernise the Russian army importing ready solutions from the West: from the armaments to the tactics. And the Rheinmetall was more than ready to help to train the Russian troops Image
Rheinmetall planned to build “the most advanced system of its kind worldwide” and able to train 30 000 troops per year Image
There is strong evidence that Rheinmetall broke sanction regime. After 2014 it could not supply its equipment directly, because of the sanctions. According to the Russian Deputy Minister of Defence, after Rheinmetall it was the Russian “Garrison” company which finished the center Image
importgenius.com/russia/supplie…
Here we see the “Garrison” company as one of major purchasers from Rheinmetall Image
Rheinmetall Defence Electronics Gmbh | See Full Import/Export History | ImportGenius
Government customs records and notifications available for Rheinmetall Defence Electronics Gmbh in Russia. See their past export from Ао “”гарнизон””, an importer based in Russia. Follow future shippi…
https://www.importgenius.com/russia/suppliers/rheinmetall-defence-electronics-gmbh
Some examples of shipments from 2019. Russian “Garnison” company was finishing the center (which Rheinmetall started) and it was buying equipment from Rheinmentall. Most probably, Garnison was just a proxy importgenius.com/russia/importe… ImageImage
Initially Rheinmetall built the Mulino center to “train a reinforced mechanized infantry or armoured brigade”. And indeed, in 2020 the Russian Western Military District declared they’ll make a “unique training center for tank forces” in Mulino
niann.ru/?id=557278 Image
Уникальный учебный центр танкистов создадут в Мулино
Новости Нижнего Новгорода
https://www.niann.ru/?id=557278
Conclusion
1. Rheinmetall AG was building the infrastructure to train the Russian land army
2. There is indirect evidence of the Rheinmetall AG bypassing the sanctions through a Russian proxy company “Garnison” as late as in 2019
Lots of materials on the training center for the Russian army built in Mulino by the Rheinmetall AG are obviously deleted but fortunately their press release is still available on the company website
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PS. If we look at where the Russian “Garnison” company which finished Mulino training center after the Rheinmetall was importing, we’ll see that 100% of its imports are from Germany (Германия). With Rheinmetall being of course the main supplier. Russian company was just a proxy ]
Obsessing over military budgets and weapons manufacturers was indeed a “fellow traveler” trope of the Cold War. And before that too, as it was an item of Communist propaganda going back to WWI.
Germany is a very rich country.
I was stationed there in the 1990s.
Their welfare is double, maybe triple ours.
Nobody is going to starve or freeze to death.
Not even (and probably especially) the Auslander (swarthy people from South of the Mediterranean and Middle East) Volke.
Even with higher prices, they should pay for Ukraine’s defense, not us.
Among the reasons that President Trump not only brought back V Corps, but moved it from Germany to Poland, must be some related to Germany’s lack of alliance value and commitment.
[Among the reasons that President Trump not only brought back V Corps, but moved it from Germany to Poland, must be some related to Germany’s lack of alliance value and commitment.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
There’s a fortune to be made from the blood of Ukrainian soldiers.
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Exactly. I do know one thing: When the very last Ukrainian is asked was it worth it all, that person will say no.
Carry on war cheerleaders, your road leads to destruction.
You mean I will be able to get lots of 6.5 x 55 Norma for my Ljungman rifle?
It has an almost flat trajectory at 500 yards...excellent.
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