🧵 — So the Polish government finally published real numbers about their military assistance for Ukraine. Despite some mistakes in the infographics, I've noticed one thing which I want to talk about. People seem to always forget about the German Ringtausch programme. 1/14 - ThreadSky

deaidua.org • 115 days ago

🧵 — So the Polish government finally published real numbers about their military assistance for Ukraine. Despite some mistakes in the infographics, I've noticed one thing which I want to talk about. People seem to always forget about the German Ringtausch programme.

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xrvrider.bsky.social•113 days ago

Great thread! 👍

I want to add:
➡️ Weapons delivery is no national competition
➡️ Military aid for Ukraine is still not enough to assure a significant win
➡️ If we don't speed up military assistance to Ukraine in quantity and quality we will be all soon be forced to fight ourselves
➡️ #TaurusForUkraine

deaidua.org•115 days ago

Firstly, let me briefly mention that this is nothing against the Polish government or the Polish people. I hope nobody feels attacked because there is no reason to feel that way.

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deaidua.org•115 days ago

Regarding the mistake: the Polish government, for some reason, only acknowledged the 88 German/Dutch/Danish-delivered Leopard 1A5 MBTs and not included the 47 pledged ones. However, they have acknowledged pledged MBTs of other countries, so I assume that this was a mistake.

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martinacz.bsky.social•114 days ago

I don't think it's a mistake

deaidua.org•115 days ago

Let's talk about the Ringtausch programme. This is often excluded from calculations in the press, and here also in the presentation of another government.

If you only go by the Polish government's publication, Germany has delivered or pledged the following to Ukraine:
— MBTs: 106
— IFVs: 140

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deaidua.org•115 days ago

In fact, Germany has delivered, pledged, has/will pay for or has co-financed the delivery of between 253 and 273 MBTs and 240 (perhaps 250) IFVs. This is quite a big difference, which only becomes clear when the Ringtausch programme is considered.

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deaidua.org•115 days ago

Of course, I'll explain where I get the numbers from.

Main Battle Tanks 👇
— 18 Leopard 2A6 / Bundeswehr stocks
— 3 Leopard 2A6 / Ringtausch with Portugal (somehow unofficial) / Germany will finance the maintenance of 14 Portuguese Leopard 2A6 (€20 million)

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deaidua.org•115 days ago

— 19 Leopard 2A4 / Germany financed the maintenance of 19 Spanish-pledged (donated?) Leopard 2A4 (€19 million)
— 135 Leopard 1A5 / 110 in cooperation with Denmark & the Netherlands / via industry

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