In Europe, the competitions are tank. The strongest crews of the American and European armies, at the training center of the 7th US Army Command, located on a military training ground Grafenwoehr in Bavaria, We held a European “tank biathlon” "Strong Europe" (Strong Europe Tank Challenge). The event kicked off 3 of June and will run until 8 June 2018 of the year.
These competitions are held for the third time. The competition involved teams from NATO and allied countries. In contrast to the Russian competition, where the emphasis is on high-speed passage of a tank track and defeat the objectives of the existing tank weapons on the move and from the place, more reminiscent of European common doctrine. In such contests are held during European competitions, as a combat shooting, technical training skills, provision of medical care, firing of personal weapons and a variety of actions of a tank platoon in defense and offense, and so on, ie. the, what we are engaged in the parts during daily training.
This year's competition was held under the expanded program, to available 10 disciplines added another three. The program included the overcoming of obstacles, shooting, driving, offensive and defensive operations, as well as other tasks. On the competition were invited 8 commands: Austria Leopard 2A4; UK FV4034 Challenger 2; Germany Leopard 2A6; Poland on the Leopard 2A5; US Abrams M1A2 SEP v2; Ukraine for T-84; France AMX-56 Leclerc; Sweden Strv.122.
Ukrainian team during the competition had pinned great hopes on the stage “tank platoon in the attack”, on which a team can earn up 500 points (on the other - from the 100 to 400), but apparently something went wrong. During the competition the team of Ukraine emerged “serious technical problems”, as a result of which the Ukrainians gathered all 208 points out 500 possible. According to some reports, during a live firing at the Ukrainian T-84 tanks “stronghold” refused to fire control system and on the battlefield armored latest APU turned into “tractor”. Tankers had to make several maneuvers and destroy at the firing position fixed and moving targets. To get to the tanks firing positions could, but to impress everyone “sniping” Did not work out. Military experts believe, that the reason for such a low result was the failure of the fire control system and poor preparation tank. by the way, last year, acting on T-64BV, Ukrainian tankers scored 329 points.
On the occasion of Ukraine stated, that the repair T-84 tanks "Hold" at the Kharkov plant of Transport Engineering was conducted with a large number of violations and delays; in particular, modernization of the machines was carried out "by the Bulgarian and a file". In social networks in the failure of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and accused Ukroboronprom. Tanks, who was taken to the competition, from 2016 of the year “gathering dust” in the shops of the plant, money to repair them were not allocated, there was no spare parts and accessories. For competition cars were collected literally “on the knee” just before the competition. As a result, the tanks still upgraded, installing radio, updated sights, a rearview camera, but completing only lasted for two tanks.
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