Quote:
Originally Posted by Oberon
...When the wall fell the Bundeswehr found themselves in an interesting position of having Soviet and Western kit in their hands ...
|
Side-note: I have read an article about how Israel and Germany have been cooperating on a secret service level (nothing the public needed to know about) for some decades when it comes to military technology.
Both nations were facing the same challenge at the same time: they had to build up their armies from the scratch against Soviet weapon technology.
So they exchanged their knowledge. When Israel captured Soviet weapons in wars against its neighbours who had Soviet weapon technology, they let German military experts take a look at it. And when Germany had a chance to put its hands on Soviet weapon technology e.g after the re-unifcation, the whole NVA, Nationale Volksarmee, the East-German army, it gave some of the **** to Israel for testing purposes.