Germany to hand over 45 Gepard anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine by the end of 2023
This year, Ukraine will receive 2 IRIS-T SLM anti-aircraft missile systems from Germany. As it turned out, Germany will also provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a new batch of Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
What is known
This was announced by the German Defense Minister in an interview with the German newspaper Welt. We are talking about 45 anti-aircraft tanks. The project is planned to be implemented jointly with the United States. Deliveries of the anti-aircraft guns are scheduled for this year. By the way, Ukraine currently has 34 of these units in service. The Ukrainian Armed Forces use them to fight UAVs.
For those who don’t know
Gepard is a self-propelled anti-aircraft system designed to cover ground troops, destroy air targets at inclined ranges from 100 m to 4 km and at altitudes up to 3 km flying at speeds of up to 350-400 m/s, as well as ground and surface targets from a range of up to 4,500 meters. The Gepard is based on the Leopard tank chassis. The plant has been manufactured by Krauss-Maffei since the mid-1970s.
