The Times: France delivers SCALP cruise missiles to Ukraine using German Audi Q7s
The British use Ridgeback armored vehicles to deliver Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, and the French use Audi Q7 vehicles for their Scalp missiles. This conclusion was reached by the British edition of the Times, analyzing a leaked conversation between high-ranking German military officials.
According to the newspaper, from a conversation between German officers it follows that the French use civilian Q7 vehicles to deliver their cruise missiles to Ukraine, and the British use Cougar Ridgback armored cars. At the same time, there are concerns that Russian intelligence may use this information to track the supply of cruise missiles to Kyiv.
However, not everything is as clear as the British Times interprets this conversation. Firstly, the Scalp cruise missile cannot be placed in the Audi Q7. Secondly, France supplied Ukraine with several dozen missiles, from where it can obtain enough German crossovers to transfer them. There is an obvious translation error here.
As the Telegraph writes, the original text of the conversation reads like this:
- says German Air Force commander Gerhartz in a leaked conversation.
A group of experts suggested that this could not be an Audi Q7, but there is no other vehicle with this index. In addition, according to the rules of the German language, we should have a verb in place of Q7. Experts suggested that Q7 is a distorted German kursieren, with the substitution of this verb everything falls into place:
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