{"id":73199,"date":"2024-06-18T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/2024\/06\/18\/german-made-frankenstein-tank-to-be-delivered-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T20:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:59:04","slug":"german-made-frankenstein-tank-to-be-delivered-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/2024\/06\/18\/german-made-frankenstein-tank-to-be-delivered-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"German-made Frankenstein tank to be delivered to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new air defense tank &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; designed to destroy Russian drones and missiles will be delivered to Ukraine by a leading German arms company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2024\/06\/17\/ukraine-to-get-german-made-frankenstein-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n<p>Rheinmetall has announced that it is installing its state-of-the-art Skyranger anti-aircraft system on the hulls of Cold War-era Leopard 1 tanks, creating a new vehicle to strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n\n<p>To create Frankenstein, the company installed its state-of-the-art Skyranger anti-aircraft system on the hulls of Leopard 1 tanks<br\/>The company has only recently developed the Skyranger system, which has sophisticated sensors with a 360-degree view of the battlefield that can counter swarms of drones.<\/p>\n\n<p>Mr. Bernhardt made his comments at a top-secret workshop recently opened by Rheinmetall in western Ukraine, where the company is repairing German-made tanks that have been damaged in the front.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;There are still many Leopard 1 main battle tanks on whose chassis we could mount a Skyranger turret with a 35 mm automatic cannon,&#8221; Bjorn Bernhard, head of ground systems at Rheinmetall, told German newspaper Bild.<\/p>\n\n<p>By repairing the vehicles in Ukraine, the company hopes to reduce the time required to return the tanks to the frontline.<\/p>\n\n<p>Initially, the plant will repair only Marder armored vehicles and an older version of the Leopard tank. But the company has said it wants to repair the more modern Leopard 2 tanks in Ukraine as well. <\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;We are not just supplying equipment and then withdrawing it &#8211; we are showing that we will be there permanently and will support Ukraine.<br\/>We plan to work for the long term in Ukraine,&#8221; Mr. Bernhard emphasized.<\/p>\n\n<p>Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the arms manufacturer&#8217;s business has been booming.<\/p>\n\n<p>Last week, the company announced that it was hiring staff from troubled car parts maker Continental, which has cut 7,000 jobs worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new air defense tank &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; designed to destroy Russian drones and missiles will be delivered to Ukraine by a leading German arms company, The Telegraph reports. Rheinmetall has announced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1274,1265,1272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-ukraine","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}