The Santa Bárbara firm, which manufactures the brand new Leopard mannequin, is answerable for rehabilitating the tanks Spain has 53 out-of-use Leopard tanks, of which 40 could also be reusable The 60 American Bradley autos go away right now for Ukraine
The Santa Bárbara firm is already engaged on the restore and rehabilitation of half a dozen Leopard 2A4 battle tanks for cargo to Ukraine, as introduced by the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, in coordination with different European nations. Defense revealed that the intention was to ship to Ukraine a few of the Leopard 2A4s which have been saved in Casetas, Zaragoza for greater than a decade, after being put aside for service.
For this, the autos want a set-up that has been entrusted to the Santa Bárbara firm, which already has a few of these tanks transferred from Zaragoza at its services in Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville), in line with ‘Infodefensa’. and confirmed to NIUS army sources.
The forecast is that these tanks may be despatched to the Ukrainian entrance within the spring, as Minister Margarita Robles assured throughout her go to to the Adazi base in Latvia final Friday. The deadline could also be on the finish of March. It takes a minimum of two months to get them up and working and to coach the Ukrainian army crews that can take cost of them.
53 Leopard in Zaragoza
The ‘Leopard’ arrived within the Armed Forces for the primary time in 1995, when a complete of 108 models have been rented to Germany to be used in Spanish bases. It was the ‘Leopard 2A4’ model, which might be despatched to Ukraine, and the 108 autos have been definitively bought from Germany in 2005 for a complete of 16.2 million euros.
After years of use, half of those fight tanks, greater than fifty, have been saved in a warehouse in Zaragoza beginning in 2012. Specifically, they have been housed within the Casetas Logistics Center of the Logistics Support Group No. 41 of the Land Army. The preliminary thought was to remodel them into particular sapper autos and bridge-launching autos, which in the end by no means materialized and after a decade of storage their situation has deteriorated.
This is how Robles pointed it out when his donation to Ukraine was mentioned for the primary time in the summertime. According to him, he mentioned, the autos have been in a “regrettable” state that made the switch unfeasible to face the Russian offensive.
Santa Bárbara, specialists in battle tanks
Defense has commissioned the Spanish arms firm, Santa Bárbara to investigate what number of tanks may be recovered for cargo to Ukraine. The request has been made in latest days, as soon as Germany has given permission for the cargo and the remainder of the allied nations have additionally promised to take action.
Germany has the patent for these battle tanks and till it has given the go-ahead the restoration operation has not been launched. Santa Bárbara is the producer of the brand new ‘Leopard 2E’, constructed completely in Spain with the German patent and, in line with specialists, rather more trendy in its aiming and taking pictures system, stabilization, electronics and options.