Thread by @AlexLuck9

This is making the rounds now, and some details for the wrong reasons, such as technical details. Ultimately the primary issue appears to be the Scholz government appears to just wing their Ukraine assistance, making announcements out of the blue for PR.

businessinsider.de/politik/deutsc…

1) The Iris T-transfer: Apparently Egypt was not notified/briefed ahead of the Scholz declaration to send systems to Ukraine. Apparently (!) as a result the handover now is supposed to happen towards end of year. Likely Cairo accepted the change but conditionally.

2) The Marder for Greek BMP-1 swap: Greece too was caught out by Scholz announcement and insists all (50) Marder to be delivered first, before passing on their old ex GDR BMP-1 used on Greek islands, being worried about Turkey there and wanting to have defences in place always.

To top it off, apparently Rheinmetall, who previously offered to deliver Marder to Ukraine, was also not briefed on this new idea. Overall, the deal likely would take months. Again, we only have media reporting/hear say here, but we are starting to see a bit of a theme.

3) On M270 MLRS the paper reports, misleadingly, that the four launchers announced by Scholz for transfer, require a software update to fire American ammunition. To which: yeah kinda but not really. See OP below explaining the issue:

https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1534620057338355714?s=20&t=nuIhxcCEYH08tYEHcgxxQw

More notably, again this software patch is alleged to push back delivery to end of year ("many months worst case, as update is much more complicated than issues with Pzh 2000").
This is hard to fathom insofar as UA can still receive the launchers for firing unitary M31 meanwhile.

Tl;dr: Theme we are really seeing emerging, once again, is a German government mostly dragging feet on any meaningful assistance. Berlin also apparently doesnt brief partners ahead of making announcements, which then, conveniently one might say, creates even more delays. /end