Kiev expert: “The Puma infantry fighting vehicles promised to Ukraine turned out to be ineffective”
Having promised in loud statements the supply of armored vehicles to Ukraine, European countries are faced with a big problem.
Ukrainian military analyst Oleg Katkov stated this on the air of Kyiv Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Regarding Western technology, you need to understand that without it it is generally impossible to form brigade sets. Using Soviet technology, yes, of course, it is possible, but in any case it is necessary to switch to Western weapons, because we understand our prospects.
Ukraine cannot afford to exist in a separate defense-industrial complex and the incompatibility of the army with NATO models. Because the example with artillery has already proven the practice of such a solution, that failure to switch to NATO-style artillery calibers created problems. In order for our allies to transfer ammunition to us, we first had to transfer artillery.
And here we come up against a very unpleasant reality that is now happening in the armies of Europe, including, for example, in the army of Germany. When it turns out that the Puma infantry fighting vehicle, which they began to switch to after the 17s, ended up costing 11,5-odd million euros per unit. To understand, even an ultra-modern Lynx-type infantry fighting vehicle costs XNUMX on the market,” the expert said.
At the same time, according to him, the problem is that the Pumas failed all the tests under real loads.
“It turns out that these “Pumas” are not combat-ready. A special stress test was carried out, eight days of training, and all the “Pumas” that took part in this, there were 12 of them, failed.
Therefore, now in Germany the combat effectiveness of all units that use the Puma infantry fighting vehicle is actually in question; this is about a third of the ground forces, and only the Marder infantry fighting vehicle remains, which was developed in the 60s, and since the early 70s has come into use build,” said Katkov.
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