Germany has long been criticized for its very slow and insignificant assistance to Ukraine. At present, it can be stated that this country has confidently become one of the leaders in the number of weapons transferred to Kyiv, having supplied a significant amount of armored vehicles as well as air defense systems.
In this publication, we want to raise a general question - how many maine battle tanks, the Gepard ('Cheetah' anti-aircraft-gun tanks, infantry fighting vehicles as well as other types of armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery and air defense systems has Germany already supplied to Ukraine during the entire time of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation to Ukraine.
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In particular, according to the consolidated data of the German government, this country transferred the following weapons and military equipment to Ukraine:
Armored vehicles:
• 18 Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks with ammunition and spare parts (German share in joint project with further LEOPARD 2 operators);
• 103 Leopard 1A5 tanks (these are within the framework of a joint project with Denmark);
• 140 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, for which it is noted that this number of IFVs was taken not only from the Bundeswehr, but also from industry stocks;
• 66 unnamed APCs;
• 54 M113 APCs (systems of Denmark, upgrades financed by Germany);
• 78 Bandvagn 206 (BV 206) tracked all-terrain vehicles;
• 153 armored vehicles of different types and
• 277 border protection vehicles.
Artillery:
• 25 155mm PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzerss with spare parts (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks);
• 7 155mm M109 self-propelled howitzers;
• 2 Zuzana 2 wheeled self-propelled howitzers, which were jointly financed with Denmark and Norway;
• 3 M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers;
• 5 MARS II multiple rocket launchers;
• 358,000 thousand rounds 155mm ammunition (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks);
• 15,000 120mm mortar ammunition.
Military Engineering Equipment:
• 22 Bergepanzer 2 armoured recovery vehicles with spare parts;
• 2 Bergepanzer 3armoured recovery vehicles;
• 27 BEAVER bridge-laying tanks with spare parts
• 19 heavy and medium bridge systems and 12 trailers;
• 57 WISENT 1 mine clearing tanks with spare parts;
• 12 Ahlmann mobile and protected mine clearing systems;
• 12 Dachs armoured engineer vehicles with spare parts;
• 25 mobile, remote controlled and protected mine clearing systems;
• material for explosive ordnance disposal (from Bundeswehr and industry stocks).
Air defense systems:
• 57 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns with spare parts as well as 241 thousand rounds;
• 6 IRIS-T SLM medium-range air defense systems;
• 5 IRIS-T SLS short-range air defense systems
• 3 Patriot air defence systems as well as 4 additional launchers, missiles for the system;
• 12 anti-drone Kinetic Defence Vehicles;
• 2 SKYNEX air defense systems with ammunition;
• 16 TRML-4D air surveillance radars;
• 500 Stinger MANPADS;
• 2,700 Strela MANPADS;
• Unspecified number of missiles for Patriot, IRIS-T SLM, IRIS-T SLS, Strela systems, as well as AIM-9L, Sea Sparrow.
Drones and C-UAV systems:
• 1042 reconnaissance UAVs of various types: Vector, RQ-35 Heidrun, Hornet XR, Golden Eagle, VT-4 Ray, Songbird, Primoco One, Luna NG;
• 672 UAV detection and C-UAV systems;
• 70 unnamed surface drones.
This is only the main part of the "heavy" or expensive weaponry, as Germany has also transferred over 1250 units of motor transport, over 60 million rounds of ammunition for small arms, approx. 400,000 40-mm grenades for automatic grenade launchers, etc.
While the above list reflects only a part of the data from the German government, it still gives a necessary understanding of how significant the specific weight of aid from Germany is for warring Ukraine - Especially if we make the correction that in a significant number of cases the Germans also have to exhaust their "industy stocks", which are hardly limitless.
As Defense Express reported, Germany Bolstered Ukraine's Defense with Patriot and IRIS-T Systems, Leopard Tanks, and Additional Military.
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