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| Äripäev: Estonia returned thousands of defective rifles worth millions of euros to the US |
| 2025-09-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Thousands of American automatic rifles purchased by Estonia from LMT Defense have been returned to the US factory to have the defects identified. This was reported on September 9 by the Estonian newspaper Äripäev. I'd hate to be in charge of accounts receivable for LMT Defense. "The high-profile arms purchase turned into a disgrace. Thousands of precision weapons turned out to be useless," the publication states. According to the newspaper, the 7.62 mm automatic rifles purchased from an American company six years ago for several million euros turned out to be defective. The main defect was a malfunction of the gas system, which is responsible for reloading after a shot has been fired. As a result, the entire batch, consisting of thousands of units, was sent to the manufacturer for warranty repairs. The State Centre for Defence Investments (RKIK) also informed the publication that the Estonian side did not suffer any financial losses as a result. In June 2023, The American Conservative magazine also wrote that the United States supplies Ukraine with a large amount of weapons, but it often turns out that they are in a state of disrepair, and their use is dangerous for the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves. Thus, the report of the Inspector General of the US Department of Defense spoke of cases when the bolts of M777 howitzers did not latch, which is a threat to the lives of artillerymen. There were also problems with Humvee armored vehicles. When sending 29 units to Ukraine, it was reported that 28 of them were in good condition, but then it turned out that 26 needed repairs. |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-09-10 08:25 |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-09-10 08:21 |