The Netherlands announced its intention to buy about a hundred Leopard 1 tanks from Switzerland for subsequent transfer to Ukraine

The Netherlands is ready to supply Ukraine with about a hundred military tanks Leopard 1, but for this they need to be redeemed from Switzerland, which is categorically against the supply of weapons to Kyiv. We are talking about the former tanks of the Italian army, owned by a Swiss company.

The Netherlands wants to buy dozens of Leopard 1 tanks from the Swiss company RUAG for their subsequent shipment to Ukraine. Preliminarily, we are talking about 96 tanks from the Italian army, bought by a private company in 2016 and now stored in the open air in the same Italy.

The company itself is not opposed to cashing in old tanks, but they need permission from the Swiss government to sell them. As RUAG spokesman Kirsten Hammerich explained, an official letter with a request for the sale of armored vehicles has already been sent, it remains only to wait for a decision and think that it will be positive.

At the same time, for some reason, the company announces plans to sell the tanks to Germany, and not to the Netherlands, but also with the subsequent transfer to Ukraine. On the other hand, if permission is obtained, it will not matter to whom to transfer them, if the Germans will still carry out the repair of equipment at Rheinmetall enterprises. And if all this is paid for by the Netherlands, then Berlin is even better off.

However, not everything is as rosy as it seems. The Swiss government is still trying to remain neutral and vetoes all transactions involving Ukraine. The same company, RUAG, has already requested to transfer the Leopard 2 tanks to Germany, but was refused, since it was supposed to send them to Kyiv. At the same time, the Swiss government allowed the transfer of 25 old Leopard 2A4 tanks to Berlin for the Bundeswehr.

Comments

[Buyan]

Fascists, all of them glassy land ...... scoundrels

[Myths]

Yes, they themselves do so that it would not stop and last as long as possible. Not enough of them was the 2nd World War. Are they ready for 3?

[Mikhail Drabkin]

—-Without turning the tide, Russia will receive the F16, and the unmanned zone, and long-range missiles, and the seizure of border territories ... This war is already worth $5 billion a month, which is comparable to military assistance to Ukraine. And continues to grow.

—- Russia is like that frog, the water in which it is boiled is heated slowly to check the reaction.

—-Unfortunately, one thing is clear: not being prepared for serious losses, the situation cannot be changed.

—- As Churchill said: “... if you choose shame between war and shame, you will get both war and shame ...”

[Eric D.]

Are you ready to send your children to the slaughter? Then what is holding you, forward, the flag in your hands !!!

[Essex62]

They will also sell the Swiss government, everyone has their own button. More hundreds of tanks. This strange operation will continue indefinitely.

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: Essex62

They will also sell the Swiss government, everyone has their own button. More hundreds of tanks. This strange operation will continue indefinitely.

The Swiss refused to sell tanks to Ukrainians. Refused. Something clicked in their head there .. Common sense probably ...

[karabas-barabas]

Quote: 30 vis

Refused. Something clicked in their head

They are now preparing a law that will allow Switzerland to participate in the export of weapons to places where it was previously impossible. With this batch, Leo1 did not work out, they gave the go-ahead for production in third countries and the supply of 35mm ammunition for Oerlikon guns. Several trillion dollars will be invested in the rearmament of Western countries only after February 24.02.2022, 10 for the next XNUMX years, and Switzerland, one of the most high-tech countries that can turn around no worse than Israel in terms of quality and technology, apparently wants to participate too.

[Volunteer Marek]

Wonderful things are happening - Switzerland allows the transfer of German tanks to the Germans. But, I think, in the end, all this equipment will somehow end up on the Russian-Ukrainian front. (I wrote and realized what a crazy world we live in!)

[your1970]

Quote: Volunteer Marek

Wonderful things are happening - Switzerland allows the transfer of German tanks to the Germans. But, I think, in the end, all this equipment will somehow end up on the Russian-Ukrainian front. (I wrote and realized what a crazy world we live in!)

End user certificate - a promise not to transfer weapons to third countries without the consent of the country of origin.

[Brturin]

Quote: your1970

End User Certificate

here is the question - an application by an application, but for now on Leopard 2 ...
The Swiss government supported the proposal of the Commission on Security Policy of the National Council (Grand House of Parliament) to decommission 25 Leopard 2 tanks with a view to their possible further resale to the manufacturer - the German company Rheinmetall ... "They pledged not to transfer them to Ukraine, but to leave them for Germany or other partners in NATO or the EU who want to replenish their own weapons," Bern said. https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/17833013
"Wishing to replenish their own weapons" i.e. compensate those who gave, but did not
At the same time, they swore in Berlin that Swiss tanks would not be handed over to Kyiv in any way. https://topwar.ru/217734-shvejcarija-odobrila-vyvod-iz-jekspluatacii-25-boevyh-tankov-leopard-2-dlja-prodazhi-germanii.html
as long as it's legal...
Members of the Swiss National Council voted on Wednesday against the adoption of a law allowing the re-export of Swiss weapons to countries involved in military conflicts... At the same time, parliamentarians supported the re-export of weapons on the basis of a Security Council resolution in which Russia has the right to veto. https://rg.ru/2023/03/08/parlament-shvejcarii-ne-prinial-zakon-ob-uproshchenii-reeksporta-oruzhiia.html

[expert]

The flying Dutch are trying something ahead of Europe.
Oh, when all these "supporters", sooner or later, start getting people, Holland, I think, will be one of the first to grab it. Its ports are asking for distribution.

[tralflot1832]

As if 40% of the territory of Holland is below sea level, an interesting fact to think about.

[blackGRAIL]

Interesting, but completely useless for the state of "reserved rights."

[sdivt]

These first leopards, if I'm not mistaken, were developed in the early 60s. Yes, I understand that they probably modernized over a long life, but, nevertheless - hello, 60s!
That is, by and large, not so far gone from our first T-62
But they are convenient, like a gesture - "here, we are helping Ukraine! With what we can, with what we can ..."

[opuonmed]

nudk is already the Russian Federation, no one is afraid of already openly supplying everything and everything to ukrrr!
I wonder if this is also a provocation for Putin?

[Rakitin]

The first Leoperd even gave in to the T-55 60 years ago. Wunderwaffle so wunderwaffle. Soon Pz.IV will be collected from museums to be sent to the Ruin. Actually, licensed Italian and Spanish copies of the German MG-42 machine gun produced in the early 1950s have long been used by hand in battles.

[rocket757]

The Netherlands have announced their intention

. The question is .... and this is what itching for?
They fooled around, but they chose fools, whom the impudent people believe as they want and nothing good, for them, this will not end.

[ada]

"... However, not everything is as rosy as it seems. The Swiss government is still trying to remain neutral and vetoes all transactions involving Ukraine...."
Yes, they will draw a "rainbow" there.
The Swiss government, these are local managers of the territory occupied by a spider - a universal banking instrument with a global financial web and a projection of some semblance of neutrality, such a cozy corner of Europe in a cool shade. All neutrality is a necessary condition for its functioning at the crossroads of interests. But, there is someone to scratch his furry belly and he will move his jointed for the necessary cobwebs and everything will go where it is necessary and when it is necessary with the addition of a percentage to whom it is necessary or with minimization of costs in anticipation of deferred benefits, and the managers will say - a good deed and feel the change in their wallet .

[thepuppeteer]

IT'S JUST SYMBOLIC TALK AND OLD METAL!

[A2AD]

The Netherlands wants to buy dozens of Leopard 1 tanks from the Swiss company RUAG for their subsequent shipment to Ukraine.

As I understand it, the supply of dope to vukriy is so large-scale. That the Dutch have nowhere to put their money. We decided to make a cashback for the slaves from the master's shoulder. Let at least a little rejoice before you die.

[Eric D.]

The Netherlands will buy tanks and send them to Ukraine with the money donated to them by Putin VV, that is, from the field from the plume donated by Putin at will without asking the people of Russia! Now all this will kill the military of Russia!!!

[Vrotkompot]

I wonder why the Netherlands is at the forefront of Russophobic politics in Europe? Why did we annoy them so much?

[APASUS]

Here the APU will add hemorrhoids. Leopard1 has a rifled 105 mm L7A3 gun. Shells must be purchased separately

[Void]

And these things that will not calm down!? It feels like everyone went crazy, and everyone suddenly wanted to play war games, on foreign territory. Lord, if you want to punish people, send them stupid leaders.