"From" Zhiguli "to" Mercedes ": As the Tankers of the Armed Forces are mastering Challenger 2 tanks (photos, videos)
In the territory of the United Kingdom in 2022, 10 thousand Ukrainian fighters were taught, 2023 - 20 thousand. Journalists showed the process of mastering British Tanks Challenger 2 and SAU AS-90. To facilitate the process, each crew has a translator, mostly recruited from Ukrainians who were forced to leave Ukraine. Instructors say that the Ukrainian military has great motivation, so training is "extremely good". "But we only need a lot in the middle of the course.
They always want to be the first in interaction. If we talk about grades, we now have a solid 8. 5 out of 10. But there is always a place to improve," one of the instructors, Lieutenant Colonel Botteril. Initially, tankers are taught on special versions of the Challenger 2 tank without a full tower. This is necessary for the driver to master the training machine.
The fighter with the call sign "Gul" for 5 years fought in the area of the OOS at the Soviet T-80 and positively evaluates the Western tank. "I would not say that the controls are very different. The tank is a tank, two levers . . . Well, there is a handle. Cool and compactly. It is new to me that it is necessary to go lying down. You feel such relaxation that you can fall asleep, "-the tank jokes.
He also says that in the process of theoretical course everything was "chewed" as much as possible, so it was difficult not to understand something. One of the Ukrainian soldiers, Sergei, says that the British are very careful about the preparation and are studying a lot. At the same time, he notes that Western equipment is much more complicated. He is currently mastering the AS-90 SAU. "I served on 2C3. She has no personal gunman. There are a lot of automatics, big computerization.