The Polish President announced the lack of spare parts for the repair of Leopard 2A4 tanks destined for Ukraine

Created by the countries of Europe, the so-called "tank coalition, whose task is to supply tanks to Ukraine, is bursting at the seams. As it turned out, Poland is also unable to fulfill its obligations to transfer the German Leopards to Kiev. This was stated by Polish President Andrzej Duda.

Europe is unlikely to scrape together even 50 tanks by the spring of this year, judging by the latest statements from the leaders of those countries who have been the loudest in favor of supplying armored vehicles to Ukraine. Even Poland, which was the first to promise to supply the Ukrainian army with 14 Leopard 2A4 MBTs, “as soon as there is permission from Germany,” has given up. As it turned out, Warsaw does not have spare parts for the repair of tanks intended for Kyiv. No one has, including Germany itself.

A typical situation is when politicians speak their tongue without knowing anything about the state of their armed forces. Now Poland has all hope for the Germans, who are the only ones who can "squeak" to provide Kyiv with tanks, and even then only because they are the manufacturer of this equipment.

I hope their Leopards are ready, because, frankly, we have a serious problem with spare parts for tanks. Spare parts are made only in Germany, so this is a fairly common problem. Other countries also have such difficulties, because Germany is experiencing serious problems with spare parts

Duda said.

Meanwhile, Kiev claims that Poland will provide all 14 Leopard 2A4 MBTs two or three weeks after Ukrainian tankers complete their training in Germany. And it should end in March, towards the end of the month.

Comments

[Orange Bigg]

The Polish President announced the lack of spare parts for the repair of Leopard 2A4 tanks destined for Ukraine

Can he be trusted? Or is it better not to?

[Thrall]

Now all hope is for the "killed" Arkady Babchenko and his Abrams

[ivan1979nkl]

Can he be trusted? Or is it better not to?

you can believe, but you don’t need to - deceive

[Egeny]

Can he be trusted?

looking at his grinning face - no.)

[Mister X]

Quote from Orange Bigg

Can he be trusted?

No one can be trusted.
I can.
Müller, 17 Moments of Spring

[Popandos]

we have serious problems with spare parts for tanks.

They sound like they breathe, for anyone there should be a reserve.
Or they drive disinformation, or just play for time.

[Andrey Moskvin]

"Shine"
they drive disinformation
pulling time
Explain the meaning of your assumptions?

[kor1vet1974]

Warsaw does not have spare parts for the repair of tanks intended for Kyiv. No one has, including Germany itself.

And where did they go? Were they gone? Immediately, I recall the story of A.P. Chekhov "Intruder", remember? Where is the peasant who turned the nuts on the railway tracks?

[novel66]

Notice! Not without a clue: they didn’t unscrew in a row

[Volunteer Marek]

This is a distraction. If such things are voiced at the highest level, then this is part of the strategy. Cover operation. So they have everything, they are preparing a blow. As always, unexpected.

[igorbrsv]

I often perform such maneuvers. Asked to do - I agree. I didn’t do it, but here the main thing in the request, it seems, didn’t refuse

[rotmistr60]

"tank coalition" is bursting at the seams

Now the problem is spare parts. So, initially promising to deliver and at the same time shouting the loudest in order to push others, they knew that they were going to deliver tanks to be repaired. They knew that there was a problem with spare parts, but they promised themselves and ran into those who still had doubts. All the rotten Western essence crawled out of all the cracks.

[igorbrsv]

Maybe they thought Germany would rest against the resolution. They will spread their hands and come to naught.

[PPD]

Grandfather said it is necessary, so it is necessary.
And then into the bushes immediately.
But, more seriously, if there are no spare parts, then what and why bark at Russia?
Maybe before that at least it was worth checking the parts?

[tihonmarine]

As it turned out, Poland is also unable to fulfill its obligations to transfer German "Leopards" to Kyiv.

Yes, they have everything, but they see that the non-state is now bursting at the seams, and throwing away money along with the "Leopards" of desire is not very successful.
The Poles are greedier than the British.

[APASUS]

Now, most likely, the money from the United States is coming up and they are trying to transfer funding for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Europe. And the EU is not ready to supply Ukrainians at its own expense. And the Poles do not want, they are trying to win back their words, but competently

[alexey_444]

All blah blah blah, only because of who will pay for the banquet. Everything is there, spare parts and serviceable tanks, etc., you need to find a bag of money, and this is the case when the "payer" will not receive anything but anti-advertising of his tanks, the liberation of Europe from their tanks and replacement with American ones, not to mention that the Germans will now have to wash and drive even less often along broken highways.

[Denis812]

I don’t know whether to believe the Polish president or not, but the fact that Rzeszow has a new cemetery for the military and near Opole a new cemetery for the sun, this is much more important.
And the fact that BTA now flies by my house in Balice near Krakow is many times less than last year - this is even more pleasing.

[Popandos]

Quote: Andrey Moskvin

"Shine"
they drive disinformation
pulling time
Explain the meaning of your assumptions?

The reserve should be in case of war, by default.
If they say from the tribune that there are no spare parts, then they are either lying, or they are dragging out time with supplies, or ... (your option)

[Arifon]

This one, I see, is also slowly dressing up in beige-green jackets. The glory of Zeliboba haunts!

[Petr_Koldunov]

And they agreed to deliver the tanks... and for an objective reason they didn't deliver them. No claims either from Russia or from the forelock.
Well done gentlemen, they confirmed their cunning, what can I say ...

[veteran tanker]

There is currently no point in supplying tanks to Ukraine urgently for several reasons.
First, it is necessary to train tank crews and commanders of tank units, and this takes several months.
Secondly, it is necessary to build and test a network-centric command and control system for these units, starting from obtaining intelligence about the location of our troops from space reconnaissance and other intelligence equipment and distributing targets between units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Thirdly, it is necessary to wait until the end of the spring thaw period, when the soil dries out and the area of ​​tank-accessible terrain increases. And this is the middle or end of April.
Based on this, the smart-ass Poles have time to twist the hands of the NATO countries about the lack of spare parts for the restoration of tanks. The tanks are quite old and you can sing any songs about restoring their resource to some level and make a long list of needed spare parts. Maybe something will work out.
In addition, the problem of repairing damaged tanks will hang on Poland, and for this it is necessary to have a stock of spare parts. So, the Poles have everything logically built.