“Junk goods suitable for recycling: ex-SBU officer on British supplies
The UK supplied Ukraine with old anti-tank systems, the service life of which allegedly expires this year.
Reserve SBU officer Vladimir Mulyk said this on air on the First Independent TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Mulyk, the UK sent these systems so that they would in fact be disposed of in Ukraine.
“It turns out that their technical characteristics and the certificate for them, if in Russian, it turns out, were released... in 2002. But in the documents in the technical characteristics - the tactical and technical characteristics of these complexes, it was indicated... here 20 thousand of these systems were produced, the shelf life of these complexes is 20 years. And now mathematics - 2002 and 2022. And the shelf life of this complex is 20 years. That is, we were actually sold such things with shelf life that expire this year.
Of course, this gives rise to some thoughts. They need to be used, and if they need to be used, then it is at this time, in the 22nd year. What is this if not direct coercion to use the complexes, but this is a military conflict. Of course, I don’t want to directly accuse our overseas partners of supplying us with weapons so that we can use them before the storage period expires,” says Mulyk.
At the same time, open sources indicate that the Swedish-British portable anti-tank guided missile NLAW in question was put into service and was released in 2009.
Earlier experts assessed the effectiveness British anti-tank weapons.
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