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sounds like a good start...i hope the punch line justifies the "joke"... everything is funny...to someone.
Three Berries
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US and EU are being disarmed.
www.dailymail.co.uk
British Army runs out of heavy guns after pledging 30 AS90s to Ukraine
Defence chiefs have pledged all 30 working AS90s to Kyiv and are now urgently seeking K9 Thunders and Archer guns to replenish their stocks.
Corpselover Fat
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Portugal will not send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The decision is made by António Costa and the reasons are not explained. These are vehicles of high technological complexity, very difficult to maintain, and whose ammunition costs a fortune and is scarce on the market.
New ammuniton, let's wait and see.
St. Phatty
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The Ukraine war is being used as a Stimulus Program for the US economy.
all those people being laid off in Silicon Valley ? the NSA is hiring some of them.
all those people being laid off in Silicon Valley ? the NSA is hiring some of them.
Well now that's a game changer...
The country is not very big.
I doubt that they have many in the first place.
Corpselover Fat
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They have 37 Leopards and no other tanks. So no. They don't have many. Finland has around 240 Leopard 2. Population of Finland is 5 million and there are twice as many portuguese. Fi is more than three times the size of Pt. We also have 1300km of border with Russia.
The LP isnt a game changer at all.Little bit further in the article
It should be noted that most of the 37 vehicles in Portugal – parked in the military field of Santa Margarida – are not operational due to lack of spare parts. This is because, despite having been acquired second-hand in the Netherlands, they belong to the most advanced range of Leopard 2 (the A6 model), being technologically very complex. Furthermore, the Army does not have and never had a single live ammunition for armored personnel to fire, but only training ammunition.
nice work as always @mexcurandero420
I don't know why you even bother. They only have 37, mostly inoperable.
As of a few hours ago...
Portugal to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, PM says
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/portugal-send-leopard-tanks-ukraine-pm-says-2023-02-04/Corpselover Fat
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Portugal is quite a poor country with gdp of little over 20 000$ per capita. Richer than Russia, but poor by western Euroopan standards. I'm not surprised they bought a few cheap used tanks and never bothered to fix all of them since noone is going to attack them.
Two trains. Choose one.
Article was from Feb 3th, but it isnt about the amount of tanks they have, which is just a small part of it, but a LP is technologically very complex and they have no live ammunition.As your article says, the missing parts will be send.Question only is when and what about the live ammunition, which cost a great ammount of money and Portugal isnt very rich btw?
Corpselover Fat
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Leopard 2 can shoot standard nato 120mm rounds and several other 120mm. It doesn't need special ammunition.
how quickly you change your story
Better to owe than to steal it. It takes plastic to win a war.
Which train are you riding on, @shiva82?
By the end of March the article says.Does the article also tell us about their training.Will that be the end of March too or are they already in training?
Not really, that's just your opinion.Dutch army had those tanks for years, like I wrote earlier, they were more in the garage for repair than operational.Those tanks aren't easy to fix in the open-field like those Russian tanks, which can be done by an ordinary mechanic.
