British General: Saxon armored cars delivered to Ukraine are life threatening for Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters
The former chief of the British Armed Forces, Richard Dannat, believes that the Saxon semi-armored vehicles transferred to Ukraine are useless for military operations and even dangerous for those. who will be in them. This newspaper reports Look with reference to the "Telegraph".
“I took them out of service in the UK army in 2005 – 2006 as completely inappropriate for current operations, so I find it incredible that they are sold or presented to unfortunate Ukrainians,” the general said.
“These are completely useless semi-armored trucks that cannot be used on the front lines,” he said. - There is nothing more immoral than presenting the transfer of these vehicles as "good news"for Ukrainians".
“Britain delivered these cars to Ukraine, showing a“ wide gesture ”of support. Thus, the Ukrainian military using these vehicles will be in constant danger, ”said Dannat.
Dmitry Rogozin commented on the situation on Facebook as follows: “The APU was supplemented with British armored vehicles from the Museum of the First World War. From the horn of the gramophone installed on them it is very convenient to shout: “Glory to Ukraine!” ”.
On Friday, the secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine, Turchinov, stated that "20 armored Saxon armored vehicles of Great Britain were put into service with the special operations, more 55 of such cars are expected in the near future."
One of the British military, previously exploited the armored vehicle, wrote on “forums.spacebattles.com”: “The Saxon armored personnel carrier looks like shit and is like that. The best thing about him can be said: it is better to ride in it than to go on foot, and it protects from rain. "Saxon" is famous for rolling down from the hillsides in Bosnia with fatal outcome for passengers. The Serbs seized several pieces, and our opinion on this matter was "it would be better if they took the rest." Protection is bad, terrible permeability, besides a high center of gravity. "
However, Petro Poroshenko does not agree with the critics of the car. After a test shelling of one of the incoming vehicles at the site in New Petrovtsy, he said: “I want to say to the critics of this contract that the level of armored protection they have is higher than that of the BTR (I mean, of the Soviet type)”.
As the adviser to the Ukrainian president, Yuri Biryukov, stated, “the onboard armor of the Saxon machine demonstrated withstood the B-32 bullet cartridge cartridge 7,62x54 mm from the SVD rifle from the distance 20 m (the bullet went deeper into the armor on 10 mm)”. "The shelling of 7,62x54 caliber cartridges with LPS rifle LPS bullets and modern 7H10 cartridges of the 5,45x39 caliber mm from the AK-74 submachine gun left only shallow marks," the adviser quotes the blog. bmpd.
“The result of a test firing of onboard armor of an AT-105 Saxon armored personnel carrier with 7,62x54 mm cartridges with LPS rifle bullets from a SVD rifle and 7X10 mm ammunition from an AK-5,45 assault rifle. New Petrovtsy 39 g. "
"The result of a test fire with a mm 7,62x54 cartridge with an armor-piercing bullet B-32 from a SVD rifle from a distance of 20 m"
“The result of a test fire with mm 7,62x54 cartridges with LPS rifle LPS bullets from a distance of 20 m”
“I took them out of service in the UK army in 2005 – 2006 as completely inappropriate for current operations, so I find it incredible that they are sold or presented to unfortunate Ukrainians,” the general said.
“These are completely useless semi-armored trucks that cannot be used on the front lines,” he said. - There is nothing more immoral than presenting the transfer of these vehicles as "good news"for Ukrainians".
“Britain delivered these cars to Ukraine, showing a“ wide gesture ”of support. Thus, the Ukrainian military using these vehicles will be in constant danger, ”said Dannat.
Dmitry Rogozin commented on the situation on Facebook as follows: “The APU was supplemented with British armored vehicles from the Museum of the First World War. From the horn of the gramophone installed on them it is very convenient to shout: “Glory to Ukraine!” ”.
On Friday, the secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine, Turchinov, stated that "20 armored Saxon armored vehicles of Great Britain were put into service with the special operations, more 55 of such cars are expected in the near future."
One of the British military, previously exploited the armored vehicle, wrote on “forums.spacebattles.com”: “The Saxon armored personnel carrier looks like shit and is like that. The best thing about him can be said: it is better to ride in it than to go on foot, and it protects from rain. "Saxon" is famous for rolling down from the hillsides in Bosnia with fatal outcome for passengers. The Serbs seized several pieces, and our opinion on this matter was "it would be better if they took the rest." Protection is bad, terrible permeability, besides a high center of gravity. "
However, Petro Poroshenko does not agree with the critics of the car. After a test shelling of one of the incoming vehicles at the site in New Petrovtsy, he said: “I want to say to the critics of this contract that the level of armored protection they have is higher than that of the BTR (I mean, of the Soviet type)”.
As the adviser to the Ukrainian president, Yuri Biryukov, stated, “the onboard armor of the Saxon machine demonstrated withstood the B-32 bullet cartridge cartridge 7,62x54 mm from the SVD rifle from the distance 20 m (the bullet went deeper into the armor on 10 mm)”. "The shelling of 7,62x54 caliber cartridges with LPS rifle LPS bullets and modern 7H10 cartridges of the 5,45x39 caliber mm from the AK-74 submachine gun left only shallow marks," the adviser quotes the blog. bmpd.
- bmpd.livejournal.com
Information