According to information published by the German Ministry of Defense on August 2, 2022, Germany confirms the delivery to Ukraine of 8 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft tracked armored vehicles and 6 mobile decontamination vehicles HEP 70 including decontamination material.
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Gepard self-propelled anti-aicraft 35mm gun system. (Picture source Army Recognition)
In 2022 Germany has increased its funds for security capacity building to 2 billion Euros. These additional funds are primarily dedicated to Ukraine as well as German contributions to the European Peace Facility, from which the cost of military support measures for Ukraine can be reimbursed to EU member states.
On July 27, 2022, the Army Recognition editorial team reported that Germany approved a plan to deliver to Ukraine 30 Gepard 35mm self-propelled anti-aircraft tracked armored vehicles and 60,000 rounds of ammunition, both coming from German army stocks.
The Gepard is a mobile anti-aircraft gun system that is based on a Leopard 1 tank tracked armored chassis that entered into service with the German army in 1976 that it is no longer in service with the German army, but an undisclosed number of Gepard would have an undetermined number of vehicles are still in German army stocks.
The Gepard consists of a turret armed with two Oerlikon Contraves 35-mm KDA cannon mounted on a tracked chassis of the German-made Leopard 1 tank. These have a cyclic fire rate of 550 rounds, per barrel, per minute, with an effective firing range of about 3,500 m and more than 4,500 m with FAPDS (Frangible Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot) ammunition.
The Gepard can work as a fully autonomous air defense system thanks to its S-band search radar mounted at the rear of the turret and a Ku-band Doppler tracking radar fitted at the front of the turret which are able to detect and track aerial targets at a maximum range of 15 km.
HEP 70 ABC CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) decontamination truck. (German army)
On August 1, 2022, German Defense Minister Lambrecht announced the delivery to Ukraine of a comprehensive package of CBRN (Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) detection equipment coming from the German army stocks including six HEP 70 ABC decontamination trucks.
The HEP 70 ABC is based on a 6x6 MAN military truck chassis with a crew cabin at the front and a cargo area at the rear. Citing information from the "Joint-Forces" website, the HEP 70 decontamination truck includes two tanks with a capacity of 1,500 liters each, a Tragkraftspritze TS 4/5 portable pump system, flow heater, dry mixing system, Zumischer Z4 inline inductor, 60-liter decontamination agent container, several pressure and suction hoses, a pipe system including control panel, a temperature monitoring system, level monitoring system, several special-purpose nozzle pipes, barrels for decontamination agents, a rack for jerry cans, storage racks for hoses and storage boxes.
