{"id":4034,"date":"2024-06-19T16:56:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressgau.4lima.de\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:37:43","slug":"germany-finances-18-additional-rch-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/2024\/06\/19\/germany-finances-18-additional-rch-155\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany finances 18 additional RCH 155 for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was already known that Ukraine would receive a very modern \u2014 probably even the world&#8217;s most modern \u2014 self-propelled howitzer in the form of the RCH 155. A total of 36 RCH 155s were announced in two batches of 18 each, first in September 2022 and later in February 2024. All of them were financed by the German government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, according to a press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knds.de\/en\/news-media\/press-releases\/detail\/knds-offers-the-complete-range-of-proven-artillery-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> yesterday by KNDS Deutschland, Ukraine will receive a total of 54 RCH 155s. For many, including myself, this was a very positive surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I quickly suspected where the previously unknown 18 self-propelled howitzers might have come from. My strong suspicion: Germany is financing the third batch of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This suspicion was kindly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Makeiev\/status\/1803132219197628661\">confirmed<\/a> within a very short time by the Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev. The RCH 155s were announced during the surprise visit of the German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius to Odesa a few weeks ago, when he made a new \u20ac500 million aid package public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among other things, he spoke of 18 wheeled howitzers to be delivered starting in 2025. However, I and probably most others assumed that he was referring to the first batch, as these are to be delivered from November\/December 2024 or Q1 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A delivery of the third batch is impossible to be carried out starting in 2025, as the second batch is to be delivered from the end of 2025 until 2027. I therefore assumed a double announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, Pistorius has \u201conly\u201d mixed up the delivery dates a little, which is, of course, in the end excellent news. Ukraine needs more and more military assistance in its defence against the Russian invaders and at the same time is relying on modern and therefore much more effective systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t<div class=\"embed-privacy-container is-disabled embed-youtube\" data-embed-id=\"oembed_88c457c3355dba9ba0f76419721d4fbc\" data-embed-provider=\"youtube\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/embed-privacy\/thumbnails\/youtube-nUQNxSl-ylk-hqdefault.jpg?ver=1.12.3); aspect-ratio: 1240\/698;\">\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"embed-privacy-enable screen-reader-text\">Display &quot;RCH 155: The world\u2019s most advanced wheeled barrelled artillery systems&quot; from YouTube<\/button>\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"embed-privacy-overlay\">\t\t\t\t<div class=\"embed-privacy-inner\">\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"embed-privacy-logo\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-privacy\/assets\/images\/embed-youtube.png?ver=1.12.3);\"><\/div>\t\t<p>\t\tClick here to display content from YouTube.\t\t\t\t\t<br>\t\t\t\t\tLearn more in <a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u2019s privacy policy<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\t\t<p class=\"embed-privacy-input-wrapper\">\t\t\t<input id=\"embed-privacy-store-youtube-88c457c3355dba9ba0f76419721d4fbc\" type=\"checkbox\" value=\"1\" class=\"embed-privacy-input\" data-embed-provider=\"youtube\">\t\t\t<label for=\"embed-privacy-store-youtube-88c457c3355dba9ba0f76419721d4fbc\" class=\"embed-privacy-label\" data-embed-provider=\"youtube\">\t\t\t\tAlways display content from YouTube\t\t\t<\/label>\t\t<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"embed-privacy-footer\"><span class=\"embed-privacy-url\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nUQNxSl-ylk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open &quot;RCH 155: The world\u2019s most advanced wheeled barrelled artillery systems&quot; directly<\/a><\/span><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"embed-privacy-content\">\t\t\t\t<script>var _oembed_88c457c3355dba9ba0f76419721d4fbc = '{\\\"embed\\\":\\\"&lt;iframe title=&quot;RCH 155: The world&rsquo;s most advanced wheeled barrelled artillery systems&quot; width=&quot;1240&quot; height=&quot;698&quot; src=&quot;https:\\\\\/\\\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\\\/embed\\\\\/nUQNxSl-ylk?feature=oembed&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\\\\/iframe&gt;\\\"}';<\/script>\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is necessary to compensate for their disadvantages compared to Russia. On the one hand, they have fewer soldiers and less equipment, but the soldiers they do have are better trained and serve with equipment that is much more modern, effective and better protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RCH 155 is probably the most modern self-propelled howitzer in the world. In basic terms, it is a fully automatic artillery gun (called AGM) mounted on a GTK Boxer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is equipped with a 155mm\/L52 gun, the same gun that is fitted in the most modern self-propelled howitzer currently in use in Ukraine \u2014 the PzH 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>If you liked this post, consider following me on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deaidua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/deaidua.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluesky<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/deaiduaTG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Telegram<\/a>. If you like, you can also leave me a tip on <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/deaidua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ko-fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of the previously known 36 RCH 155s, Ukraine will receive 54 of the very modern self-propelled howitzers. The previously unknown 18 RCH 155s will also be financed by the German government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,355],"tags":[267,354,269],"class_list":{"0":"post-4034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-military-aid","8":"category-military-aid-packages","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-rch-155","11":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deaidua.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}