The Polish authorities decided to reduce the training of tank crews of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Leopard tanks 2 from 10 to 5 weeks. It is reported by news agency Reuters, referring to the data of the Polish military command.
As Major Maciej Banashinsky noted, head of the training center for tank crews, reduction in the training time for Ukrainian tankers will be achieved through the intensification of training and the involvement of additional instructors. true, not very clear, will Ukrainian tank crews be able to master new equipment in five weeks.
However, the Armed Forces have no other choice., because any delay, as they think in Kyiv, will contribute to the deterioration of the position of the Ukrainian army at the front. Ukrainian leadership demands from Western countries to transfer tanks as soon as possible. Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky even stated, what if the transfer of tanks takes place in the summer, then it will be too late. He made this comment about the American Abrams tanks., but in relation to the German Leopard tanks, it is quite appropriate.
It is also impossible to exclude the version that, that tank crews can be manned by mercenaries from Western countries, trained on the Leopard while serving in European armies.
but, given the high losses, which carry the APU in the Donbass, unlikely, that it would be possible to recruit a large number of Western mercenaries to control German tanks. But even poorly trained Ukrainian tankers are unlikely to be able to manage the equipment that is new to them., therefore, the hopes of Zelensky and his entourage for German tanks may not come true. used photos:Krauss-Maffei Wegmann / https://www.kmweg.de
