German Leopard 1A5 at the 2015 Military Day in Uffenheim on 7 June 2015. By Wikimedia user Rainer Lippert.
German defense contractor Rheinmetall could soon supply Ukraine with a new self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, the company’s head of Land Systems, Bjorn Bernhard, said in an interview with Bild that was published on June 16.
According to Bernhard, the system, which the German media dubbed “Frankenstein tanks,” is already in the works. The system would be a heavily armored version of Rheinmetall’s advanced Skyranger 35 anti-aircraft gun turret mounted on the chassis of Cold War-era Leopard 1 main battle tanks. It will reportedly be capable of dealing with targets such as drones, missiles and artillery fire at a short-range.
“There are still a lot of Leopard 1 battle tanks on whose chassis we could put the Skyranger turret with the 35 mm machine gun,” Bernhard said in the interview, which took place at a secret Rheinmetall tank repair factory in Western Ukraine that was reportedly launched in early June.
The Skyranger 35 turret is armed with a 35 mm revolver cannon, based on the 35/1000 revolver gun, with 252 rounds. The cannon can fire single-shots, rapid single shots at 200 rounds per minute or at a maximum rate of 1,000 rounds per minute. It has an effective range of four kilometers.
The turret is also equipped with an integrated sensor suite, consisting of an X-band or Ku-band tracking radar with a range out to 30 km and an EO/IR camera with a laser rangefinder and automatic target tracking.
Rheinmetall presented a similar vehicle, albeit placed on a Leopard 2 chassis, at the ongoing Eurosatory 2024 defense industry exhibition in Paris.
“Highly mobile, modular and scalable ground-based air defense systems are becoming increasingly important as NATO forces refocus on national and alliance defense,” the company said in a press release.
It is unclear when Ukraine may get the new hybrid self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. Kiev forces have already received roughly a hundred traditionally configured Leopard 1 tanks from Germany.
In recent months, the Kiev regime increased pressure on its allies to supply more air defenses to counter repeated Russian drone and missile attacks.
While Rheinmetall is now promoting its Frankenstein tanks as the ultimate solution, or even some Wunderwaffe, the truth is that Germany has already supplied Ukraine with a very similar anti-aircraft gun system dubbed Skynex. The system made no difference whatsoever, and there were reports of at least one being destroyed by the Russian military earlier this year.
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rheinmetall factories in germany have to be neutralized. old nazis helping neo-nazis. no way.
told ya, the whole eu, aka eurotardland, is nothing but an conglomeration of fascists and nazis.
and the idiotic eurotards will scream: “nonono, its not us, its them!”
guillable clowns!
you cant fix stooopid
lol the nazi russian with 2 neurons
thats two more then you eurotard nazis have. how was the buttsex with your transitioned mother?
“diehl” is already burning.
how many millions will one cost? all it takes is one 20,000 dollar lancet and it’s buy buy time for another wonder weapon.
does not matter how much, the german tax payer will finance it with big pleasure. old nazis helping neo nazis
uvidíme až to bude. potom sa bude dať hodnotiť ich účinnosť. pokiaľ je to iba v rovine úvah tak nič.
ruzzian nazis are crying again – hilarious. 🇷🇺=🤡 😆😆😆
0 id wrote that reeeeeeee!
i wonder if this is just jens the eurotard nazi beeing salty?
noupe, i 0 would wrote this, not mee
looks like our favourite cheap danish manwhore jens holm is impersonating folks.
cant win with arguments chump?
they can take the ostwind out of the museum and send them to ukraine ;-). its interesting to see the modern expensive military on all sides answer to cheap drones. i am sure the west would prefer to not have developed them seeing how this gives nominaly weaker countrys the ability to fight stronger ones which would have been impossible otherwise besides those in dificult terain (mountains, forest).
they are using such conception since very old “skyguard” — few ground turrets of 35-mm “oerlikon” guns under fire control system management with its own radar. its variants — “skyguard/sparrow”, “skyguard/adats” and “skyguard/aspide” with addition of close/short range missiles to the complex. so many years gone, but nothing new in principle. just compare with “derivation” aad complex with 57-mm gun with distant fuse.
usa-nato laugh at little vlad’s red lines…heheheh
hey eurotard, when will moscow burn? i see you repeating your wet fantasies on different sites. and you are to ckickenshit to use one name, pathetic!
😂😂😂💩
stalking homosexual…heheheh…
pathetic stalin fluffer, pretend as much as u want,but u are nothing else than a ivan flathead.
agree and bunker grandpa’s country is a laughing stock….having to beg shithole n korea for cooperation.
bomb the german factory, in ww2 we bombed german factories seems a strange way for russia to fight a war if they don’t.
the allied bombing of germany was basically one big war crime, and it didn’t work. after the war, typical of five eyes garbage, their failed total war strategy against german industry turned into a great victory because so many german assets were devoted to combatting it.
hahaha the same solution as their grandfathers after the luftwaffe was wiped out history repeats fcol
rheinmetall: another german company listed as involved in the holocaust. used ukrainian, polish, russian slave labour during the war and jewish labour from bergen -belsen concentration camp. nice ethical history. any ukrainians under any illusions about the nazis should read the hunger plan they set up for the ukrainian populace when they occupied ukraine.
the hunger plan seems to have been forgotten in the west. we remember the horrors of the holocaust but forget the nazi plans for the slavs the most infamous manifestation being leningrad where putin’s older brother starved to death along with countless others.
no sir, it has not been forgotten: people in the us and it’s lapdogs, satellites, vassals and whores in nato and the eu just don’t know anything about. one cannot forget something they have no idea about. if you want to see some of the best history and geography illiterates on this planet, just try to talk to an american or watch us media. you will see just how uninformed, misinformed, easily brainwashed and downright ignorant the garbage they spew is.
they dont care to them only western and jewish lifes matter and those that are convinient at that specific moment like ukrainians right now at least when they talk. in reality they look at ukrainians just as russians who they were able to finesse to die for western interests and are pretty proud about it. just listen to some of them when they brag about the “best money ever spent.”
usa is gonna kick some russian ass!
superior russian humiliate amerikunt
find it and flatten it.
dont sing it bring it.