The incident took place during exercises for Nato's rapid response force, formed in reaction to the Ukraine crisis, which is supposed to be ready to deploy anywhere it is needed at very short notice.Soldiers in the Panzergrenadierbataillon 371 took part in the exercises last September in Norway.The troops were missing 31 per cent of their MG3 general-purpose machine guns, 41 per cent of their P8 handguns, and more than three-quarters of their Lucie night-vision devices.Soldiers resorted to painting broomsticks black and attaching them to Boxer armoured vehicles to simulate gun barrels.The German Defence Ministry sought to downplay the incident, saying the Boxer vehicles in question were being used as mobile headquarters, and werenever supposed to be armed.The shortages of handguns and machine-guns have since been rectified, a spokesman said.It emerged last month that the German military was also using ordinary Mercedes vans as stand-ins for armoured personnel carriers during training because of equipment shortages.General Harald Kujat, a former chief of staff of the German armed forces and chairman of the Nato military committee, described the latest incident as a "huge embarrassment...."It emerged in a parliamentary report last year that only 42 of Germany's 109 Typhoon fighters are available for immediate use because of maintenance issues.Only 38 of its 89 Tornado bombers are operational, alongside only 280 of the army's 406 Marten tanks.Another parliamentary report last month told how members of Germany's KSK special forces had to pull out of a Nato joint exercise because there was no operational helicopter available for them.From Washington Post: To make matters worse, the broom-equipped German soldiers belong to a crucial, joint NATO task force and would be the first to be deployed in case of an attack.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/19/germanys-army-is-so-under-equipped-that-it-used-broomsticks-instead-of-machine-guns/
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=76a_1424379854&comments=1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11420627/German-army-used-broomsticks-instead-of-guns-during-training.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-army-paints-broomsticks-black-to-resemble-machine-guns-in-nato-exercises-10054468.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/19/german-army-forced-use-black-broomsticks-symbolize/
http://www.newsweek.com/germany-cant-explain-use-broomstick-instead-guns-nato-exercise-307902
Wew lad
>he doesn't know about experimental high capacity ultra-light wooden machinepistole
>>79002797
Do you respect wood?
>>79002797
>2016
>still operating with high-density metal weapons
get on my level
This is just fucking sad
>>79002797
kek
>>79002797
how embarassing
That's great.
Now if only we made that a rule.
>>79002797
how the fuck are you supposed to train without SOME kind of live fire exercise
this is absurd levels of cuck
>>79002797
splinters can cause infections
no laughing matter. some people can died from the infections in the 1800s after a few months
this is why we should leave NATO and let the Eurocucks fend for themselves
>>79002797
>Be German
>Sweep floor
>>79002797
>Be German
>German government spends all its money so that Jamal and Ahmed could fuck german women, while German bois sit there and do nothing.
>Spend so much money on big black cock your military doesn't function anymore.
Damn you guys can afford broomsticks?
We just use our fingers.
Old news. Germany has a minimal army for decades now. Now they blitzkrieg with other means.
Meanwhile, The United States started a war in the Middle East to train its soldiers.
>>79002797
And thats how they want to become a supernation? Niggers on the next hood from be are better equiped than this cucks and WE LIVE IN A GUN CONTROL COUNTRY
>>79002797
Why wood they do that?
Someone should invade them, Germany is ripe for the taking.
>>79004481
They will invade themselves.
German military will become so weak that rebels will just march into Berlin and take over without a fight.
WE NEED TO LEAVE NATO NOW
>it's war! hans, go to the cuckshed and fetch our broomsticks!
BANG BANG
I GOT YOU
>>79004666
checked
The German army is so pathetic they can't even mop up after real armies do the fighting.
WE WUZ THOUSAND YEAR REICH AN SHEEEIT
russia could take over half of europe within 3 months using nothing but old soviet equipment. a few hundred modern tanks will not stop an onslaught of 7000+ older models.
And Germany is trying to control the EU
The US military does pretty much the same thing. I was an 11b, and for training we usually carried these hard rubber m4's called rubber ducks. We yelled bang to simulate shooting.
>>79002797
Didn't Trump talk about getting out of NATO?
>>79005128
It already does. The rest of the Europe is even more pathetic than Germany. Britbongs were smart to leave before they were forced to join the EU army.
>>79004337
Kek, true
>>79005234
>june
>still talking about trump
get out
>>79002797
This is old OLD news.
>>79002797
So this is the might of GERMAN war machine
>>79005387
Dude, we will still protect you. Calm down
>>79002797
North Korea is laughing at the Krauts.
>>79002797
Gun cucks BTFO
German muslims more prepared for war than German soldiers...... http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/27/german-authorities-find-weapons-of-war-during-raid-near-radical-mosque/
>>79005530
>we want to leave nato
>nato literally controlled by US
plus, austria is not in nato
>>79004970
They can't mop in general because they converted all their mops into firearms.
>>79002797
This news is over a year old, surely by now they were able to siphon off a few dollars from the importing Ahmeds fund to buy a few guns right?
>using metal
Wew lads, BAN ASSAULT BROOMS
>>79004071
underrated
The upcoming German-Poland war over EU unification is fought with broomstick on one side, plunger on other side.
>>79006600
>tipledubs
underrated
>>79006600
Check
