USA delivers Gepard anti-aircraft tanks from Jordan to Ukraine

As part of the military aid announced by US President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Ukraine will receive up to 60 Gepard anti-aircraft tanks. In May, the Army Contracting Command commissioned the company Global Military Products to purchase the tanks from Jordan for 118 million US dollars (the equivalent of around 110 million euros) and to deliver them in operational condition by May 2024.

Jordan acquired the cheetahs from the Netherlands in 2016. The Netherlands acquired 100 cheetahs at the end of the 1970s and, in 2016, after a structural reform of the army, sold 60 of them to Jordan along with a logistics package. After repairs in the USA, these are now to be delivered to Ukraine in the middle of next year.

Sie treffen dort auf die 50 Gepard-Panzer, die Deutschland in den zurückliegenden 16 Monaten an die ukrainischen Streitkräfte übergeben haben. Deutschland hat über einen Vertrag mit Rheinmetall auch für die Versorgung mit Munition gesorgt.

In the war in Ukraine, the Cheetah proved to be an effective weapon in the fight against countless small and large drones. The turret with its two 35 mm high-cadence cannons is designed for close and close range protection and is still able to cope with modern threats more than fifty years after it was put into service.

Gerhard Heiming

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