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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
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More than four years beyond schedule, with the company having blackmailed the government that if no further price raises would be accepted and the contractual penalties would not be skipped, Airbus would not build the plane at all,
and instead would sue Germany for compensation (now that is rich, isn't it), and would even cut jobs in Germany.
Note that at least the first tranche of planes delivered to Germany - will not feature any offensive or defensive system capacity. Airbus has messed up the software, the software implemented on this and the following plane is incompatible with the needs of the technical systems the German forces wanted to mount.
I cannot imagine how such disastrous failures cna even happen.
The German Eurofighters - the majority of planes is grounded,
and many still lack armament, I learnt last week.
Of the four 212 uboats we have, only one is operational.
An internal report on the status of the Leopard tank force, is kept under secrecy and got prevented form pusblishing earlier this year. But when you know that of the
new APC Boxer, only one third is operational, you can imagine why they keep the report on the Leopards locked.
And the new German IFV Puma got build with too small a turret. So it has not sufficient room to mount a heavy or medium machine gun as coax, but only a small 5.56mm light machine gun. As a coax, for an IFV.
. Since weight demands also were not met, the air transport capacity for the Puma in maximum armour protection configuration is even significantly higher than for the Marder 1A3.
You need
more than one A400M to airlift one Puma - one for the vehicle, and one for the armour.
Last time I checked, the main gun it features, still lacks stability when firing, and lacks precision, therefore.
Give me a CV 90 with functioning systems, and damn impressive armament, armour and agility. Or even a Pizarro (Ulan), also no bad choice, AFAICS. But us Germans wanted to reinvent the wheel again with the Puma.