The first Western Leopard 2 main battle tanks have reached Ukraine: Germany has already delivered 18 and the first tanks from Poland and Canada are also in Ukraine. In a few weeks, the government in Kiev will receive a Leopard 2 delivery from Spain. Crews have also been trained – in an intensive six week training they learned how to use the Leopard 2 from operators such as the German armed forces. Is this enough?
Six weeks is not a particularly generous amount of time for training, as Colonel Jörg Loidolt of the Austrian Armed Forces knows. He has been commander of Panzer Battalion 14 in Wels since 2019 and has 20 years of experience with the Leopard 2, which is also used in Austria. In an interview with krone.at, he reveals how long Leopard 2 training takes in Austria and what the soldiers learn from it, what you can miss in the fast track and what advantages the German tank has over the previously used models of Soviet-era Ukraine.
Source: Krone
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