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Podcast: BFBS Sitrep
Episode: Home or Away – Where’s best for British training of Ukrainian forces?
Description: Tens-of-thousands of Ukrainian troops have been trained in the UK on Operation Interflex, but Ukraine says our trainers now lack “modern combat experience”, and that the lessons would be more effective delivered at home.Simon Newton explains the practical considerations and why this will be an evolution of Op. Interflex, not end to it.Also on Sitrep a senior Army officer blames failures to correctly operate and maintain Ajax armoured vehicles for more than 30 soldiers falling ill on exercise. Former tank commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon explains how regular checks of tracks, and a new a...