Three years ago, Rheinmetall sold Marder tanks to Jordan – now the Ukraine is supposed to pay 70 percent more for them. This is reported by the “Business Insider”. According to this, Jordan had to pay significantly less for the martens a few years ago than the price that the group is now charging.
No armaments company took such an offensive stance during the Ukraine war as Rheinmetall. Armin Pappberger, the CEO of the Düsseldorf-based arms manufacturer, has been giving regular interviews since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, in which he made offers to supply arms to Ukraine. The most urgent offer made by Pappberger: the delivery of 100 discarded Marder infantry fighting vehicles owned by the company.
And apparently Rheinmetall is paying well for the martens. Because for the 100 martens, for which Rheinmetall has applied to the federal government for delivery to the Ukraine, the group is demanding 153 million euros, including ammunition and spare parts. A stately price – which is significantly higher than that which the group called for the purchase of used Marder by the Kingdom of Jordan just a few years ago, as “Business Insider” reports.
This emerges from a response from the left-wing faction in the Bundestag in June last year. The Rheinmetall company delivered a total of 75 Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Jordan between 2016 and 2021. The prices quoted vary: in 2016, Jordan paid around 16.6 million euros for 25 martens and 28 associated automatic cannons and breechblocks. In 2019, 25 martens, each equipped with automatic cannons and breechblocks, cost over 22.2 million euros.
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If you extrapolate the 2019 prices for Jordan, 100 Rheinmetall Marders including guns and bolts would cost almost 89 million euros. The unit price would be roughly 890,000 euros. Significantly less than the unit price of 1.5 million that Rheinmetall is now asking for the delivery of 100 martens to the Ukraine. If you take the 2016 price for Jordan – unit price roughly 660,000 euros per marten – the discrepancy with the Ukraine offer becomes even more striking. So there is a gap of around 70 percent between the current offer to Ukraine and the offer to Jordan in 2019.
This also includes ammunition, maintenance and training. Rheinmetall also named the same conditions for deliveries to Jordan. Inflation between 2019 and 2022 does not explain the large price difference either. A corresponding request from “Business Insider” left Rheinmetall unanswered. The Ministry of Economic Affairs, which is responsible for armaments exports, also did not want to comment on the prices quoted by Rheinmetall – and whether they have an impact on the approval of the export license for the martens.
“Detailed information on the delivery and payment of goods to be used for military purposes in Ukraine is confidential in order to protect Ukraine’s military secrets,” said a spokesman. and approval procedures.”
