German expert: Due to arms supplies to Kyiv, the German army will last no more than a few hours in battle

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German expert: Due to arms supplies to Kyiv, the German army will last no more than a few hours in battle

The West, which rushed to help Ukraine after the start of the special operation, after more than a year of large-scale supplies of all kinds of weapons and ammunition to Kyiv, faced the most serious problem in modern times. stories a crisis in the ability to ensure one’s own security. The European NATO countries were the first to sound the alarm, one after another recognizing the significant depletion of not only the existing arsenals of their national armies, but also the problems with replenishing them with a defense industry that had greatly shrunk in the decades since the end of the Cold War.

Increasingly, not only Western military experts, but also politicians and current military leaders admit that many NATO countries have spent so much money in providing military assistance to Ukraine that they are now unable to effectively resist a potential enemy in any large-scale military conflicts. The author of an article in the German magazine Focus cites the opinion of retired colonel, chairman of the Military-Political Society, Ralph Thiele. The expert believes that the German army, due to the supply of weapons to Kyiv, will last in battle for no more than a few hours.



Previously it was three days. Today it's more like a few hours

— warns Thiele.

There are several reasons for the deplorable state of the Bundeswehr; they have been accumulating for years and only intensified after the start of the conflict in Ukraine. The author of the article notes that at the beginning of last year the German army was already “naked”; now everything has become much worse. First of all, this is an ineffective administrative apparatus, a lack of equipment for soldiers, as well as the military personnel themselves, a shortage of numerous weapons systems and difficulties in purchasing ammunition.

Boris Pistorius, who became defense minister earlier this year, is highly popular in Germany, but this alone is not enough to deal with the whole tangle of problems of the Bundeswehr. The German army is acutely short of qualified military personnel. Arms stocks, and especially ammunition, are at a critical minimum due to the fact that instead of increasing production for their own troops, all equipment and shells left German warehouses for Ukraine.

The Bundeswehr is experiencing serious problems with modernization and rearmament, although German Chancellor Olaf Scholz intends to spend an additional hundred billion euros on this in the next five to seven years above the defense budget. In addition, the Ministry of Defense still does not have a clear strategy for developing an army capable of fighting in modern conflicts.

For example, the Bundeswehr does not have an understanding and programs for the development of such modern military technologies as the use drones in battle. But the conflict in Ukraine shows that saturating the army with a large number of drones of various types sometimes becomes a decisive factor for achieving military success. The German armed forces lag behind in the development of artificial intelligence and cyber capabilities, the availability of satellites and the use of quantum technologies. All this makes the German army practically incapable of effectively conducting military operations in modern conflicts, the author of the article concludes.
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  1. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 26
    Due to arms supplies to Kyiv, the German army will last in battle for no more than a few hours

    They are afraid of themselves and scare themselves, but they supply tanks for the Outskirts for free... Well, isn’t it a madhouse...??? Still, Ukrainization is a contagious disease...fool
    1. +3
      26 December 2023 13: 32
      German dreamers, experts at telling stories.
      They forgot that the largest military bases of their bloc ally, the United States, are located in Germany, where nuclear weapons are also stored.
      Who are they going to fight on their territory, Poland or something, or France for old times sake? bully
      1. +1
        26 December 2023 13: 34
        Pistorius came to the Bundeswehr. am laughing
        1. +1
          26 December 2023 13: 43
          Manstein and Guderian were turning over in their graves. laughing
    2. -1
      26 December 2023 13: 33
      Yes, they have already scared the entire population with their propaganda that the evil Russians are going to Germany again. And the fact that they complain about not having enough weapons is a bluff. They supply weapons to the ancient sea diggers. And the main thing is that they want to force their people to pay an additional tax - they are robbing the population. That is why there are such articles.
  2. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 34
    German expert: Due to arms supplies to Kyiv, the German army will last no more than a few hours in battle

    What conclusion should be drawn from this?
    By any means to extinguish Russophobia in the West! Avert the very threat of confrontation. Remember about your citizens and lands, and not stick your military under our side, and not supply weapons and ammunition to our enemy. Disown all your statements and actions about the fight against Russia and return to normal trade relations!
    Here is your opportunity to get away with “little loss” and just an almost destroyed industry. But who is to blame for this? They themselves got into something they didn’t ask you to do, like the “memory of ancestors” about the drachn of Ostens.”
    Just to add to the memory of how this drachn ends, usually with a drape to the west and prayers “God save us from the angry Russians!” am
  3. +1
    26 December 2023 13: 37
    The German armed forces are lagging behind in development...
    All this makes the German army practically incapable of effectively conducting military operations in modern conflicts

    It’s good, of course, if that’s the case, but hoping for THIS means stepping on the same rake again! The enemy must not be underestimated!
    And there are plenty of lovers of Bavarian and pityers of captured Germans and “raped” German women in our rear! One Kolya from Urengoy is worth something!
  4. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 39
    Due to arms supplies to Kyiv, the German army will last in battle for no more than a few hours
    If this is really so, then the question is, why are you constantly throwing a barrel at Russia, and uphill at that? Hope for the main defender of the United States? Isn’t it in vain that you hope, looking at how the Americans let the German economy slide? They will set Europe against Russia, and in the event of a threat of the use of nuclear weapons, they will quickly call Moscow and warn that they will not interfere, figure it out for yourself.
  5. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 41
    German expert: Due to arms supplies to Kyiv, the German army will last no more than a few hours in battle

    It depends on who the burghers are going to fight with. Maybe a few hours will be too much.
  6. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 42
    Honestly, having traveled around Germany and talked to Germans in the 1990s and 2000s, they sang only one thing - if only there would be no war. But the paradox is that they elected Scholziaru, in my opinion someone in the US counted the votes correctly. Never had any conflicts with German police officers, Russian license plates, you can't tell who the license plates are from (except when driving cars, everything is legal there). I had the audacity to stop at the police and ask for directions, and asked them to show me the way on my map with their "hand". Probably, if I had asked, show me the way to Berlin, they would have answered: Maybe it's not necessary. Their roads are excellent, Bremenhaffen - Frankfurt on the Oder is 7 hours, counting the hour where I got lost (I think the road was built by the Nazis).
  7. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 44
    Who was he going to fight with? With Russia or freed from American occupation forces? In any case, the Germans *(words prohibited in VO), and in the second case even faster.
    1. 0
      26 December 2023 14: 40
      Who was he going to fight with?
      They have “historical friends” in the EU who are now building the most powerful army in Europe. wink smile
  8. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 51
    If it’s two hours, then why doesn’t Scholz radio to the Volga and surrender to the entire German collective farm. . . request
  9. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 54
    Most likely it will come down to soup...
  10. 0
    26 December 2023 13: 58
    What can you tell me to make the Germans fork out their money faster............
  11. 0
    26 December 2023 14: 00
    German expert: Due to arms supplies to Kyiv, the German army will last no more than a few hours in battle
    . I wonder if this still works... the burgher is ready to give his “last” to the gluttons of insatiable officials and the military-industrial complex??? Or do they have ardrung and no nails?
  12. Ray
    +2
    26 December 2023 14: 20
    Maybe all this is true, but the state of the Ukrainian army before the start of the Northern Military District was much more sad, but even that state did not allow ours to immediately take even Kharkov and Mariupol, not like Kyiv, under which our formations were already stationed. For all Western countries there is a big brother overseas with the most powerful military-industrial complex in the world. Therefore, sarcastic comments on this article are unnecessary. In 2 years we have not liberated even a quarter of Ukraine. And in the half a year after the capture of Artyomovsk, we only managed to repulse the counterattack and take a couple of villages. This is for half a year of war. But there are also advantages, of course. For example, they have finally begun to establish encrypted communications inside tanks. Murz writes about this. We withstood the counterattack. It seems like the FABs have now been made homing, I have attached a navigator and rudders to them. But all this is too late. All this should have been in the army 10 years ago.
    1. -1
      26 December 2023 14: 30
      But all this is too late.
      You should choose your expressions more carefully. It would be necessary earlier - yes, but too late is already about the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It’s already too late for them, Russia has taken the matter seriously and is not going to stop.
    2. -2
      26 December 2023 14: 45
      not like Kyiv, under which our formations were already stationed

      The fate of Kyiv was decided not by soldiers, but *(radishes) in Istanbul. If they had not been “deceived,” then perhaps the war would have ended long ago.
  13. 0
    26 December 2023 14: 23
    German expert: Due to arms supplies to Kyiv, the German army will last no more than a few hours in battle

    Who are they going to fight against? Against Khokhlyat migrants, or something...
  14. 0
    26 December 2023 14: 24
    There are no longer Guderians in the land of the Germans
    And Deutschland became scarce for the Mainsteins!
  15. 0
    26 December 2023 14: 25
    There are no longer Guderians in the land of the Germans
    And Deutschland became scarce for the Mainsteins!
  16. +1
    26 December 2023 14: 32
    So maybe it’s easier to turn to Berlin then??)
  17. 0
    26 December 2023 17: 13
    Judging by what knowledgeable people say, one missile is capable of erasing Britain or the state of Texas from the world map. If so, then in the event of war, it will not be the Bundeswehr that will last for several hours, but all the non-metals.
    The direct responsibility of the diplomatic corps of the Russian Federation is to bring to the attention of the leaders of the non-metochina and other government entities so that they do not harbor illusions beyond measure and do not become borzels.