Europeans have loaned old Soviet tanks to museums for Ukrainian military training in the booby trap tactics used by Russian soldiers on the battlefield.
The commander of the EU training mission told Reuters about this.
Instructors from 17 countries trained about 18 thousand Ukrainian military personnel in Germany. They were taught to operate high-tech tanks, air defense systems, and snipers, engineers, paramedics and drone operators also received training.
Reuters writes that Ukraine was looking for exercises with older equipment because it better represents the conditions of a real battlefield. For the exercise, the German military dug trench systems to Russian standards and borrowed Soviet tanks from museums to improve the on-site experience at some of its training sites.
Or [музейні] systems are used on the Russian side, and sometimes they set booby traps in abandoned equipment, Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow, chairman of the EU Special Training Command near Berlin, told Reuters.
Providing such vehicles during training makes it easier to demonstrate where to be careful not to cause an explosion if you find them on the battlefield and open the doors, the official said.
The exercise command refused to say where exactly the tanks were borrowed from or how many.
The EU Special Training Command is part of the European Union military mission created in 2022 to train the Ukrainian military. On November 8, this mission was extended for another two years. But now part of the training in Germany also includes research into Russian trench systems, which Marlow said were built according to a fixed pattern.
We are talking about the shape of the trenches, where to expect cover and weapon positions,” he said.
Modern simulators have also been used for combat shooting training, and high-tech mannequins are helping combat medics learn to perform more complex tasks.
In addition, according to the commander, drones are now playing a much larger role in exercises, training military personnel in surveillance techniques and increasing awareness of the threat from enemy drones.
Source: Racurs
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