Ex-minister Glváč should stop telling lies
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- Date: 09.06.2018
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In the long run, the SVK Armed Forces have had a clear and unambiguous requirement for the new 8x8 IFV to be fielded with the SVK military – to have a swimming capability. This has been one of the basic operational requirements made clearly and unambiguously by service personnel. Needless to say, they have insisted on this requirement since 2013, when the discussions on the procurement of new IFVs commenced. As part of the then project service personnel required a minimum swimming speed of 8 km/h. If ex-minister Glváš denies this fact, then he is lying purposefully, and he should be reminded that the vehicle he chose was, too, required to swim according to a military requirement.
But he may have simply forgotten how he himself took the soldiersʼneeds into consideration. So when in 2015, based on the Letter of Intent on Cooperation, he and the Prime Minister made an official statement that they would purchase Rosomak Scipio 8x8 IFVs, it was obviously necessary to downgrade the original operational requirement on the vehicle he had chosen. As a matter of fact, the requirement on the vehicleʼs swimming capability was not made until more than three weeks after the official, magnificent statement on the launch of the project. He asked the military for the requirement additionally, thereby breaching the applicable Armaments Directive. Despite this, on 21 July 2015 the Armed Forces resubmitted their operational requirements for the 8x8 platform, however, this time the swimming capability requirement was for a minimum speed of 6km/h. The Rosomak Scipio 8x8 IFV met this requirement.
It is interesting to note how unexpectedly well Mr Glváč and Mr Galko understand each other now, and that he slips false information to journalists. Similarly, he lied about the €2.6 million price of the Rosomak Scipio 8x8 IFV, and today he is doing the same thing about the vehicleʼs swimming capability. The MOD is convinced that it is better have a direct contact with the Patria of Slovak production, rather than buying a Polish vehicle built on the same chassis. The aim of the MOD is to preserve SVK armaments companies, not to lease them to others, as Mr Glváč did.
But he may have simply forgotten how he himself took the soldiersʼneeds into consideration. So when in 2015, based on the Letter of Intent on Cooperation, he and the Prime Minister made an official statement that they would purchase Rosomak Scipio 8x8 IFVs, it was obviously necessary to downgrade the original operational requirement on the vehicle he had chosen. As a matter of fact, the requirement on the vehicleʼs swimming capability was not made until more than three weeks after the official, magnificent statement on the launch of the project. He asked the military for the requirement additionally, thereby breaching the applicable Armaments Directive. Despite this, on 21 July 2015 the Armed Forces resubmitted their operational requirements for the 8x8 platform, however, this time the swimming capability requirement was for a minimum speed of 6km/h. The Rosomak Scipio 8x8 IFV met this requirement.
It is interesting to note how unexpectedly well Mr Glváč and Mr Galko understand each other now, and that he slips false information to journalists. Similarly, he lied about the €2.6 million price of the Rosomak Scipio 8x8 IFV, and today he is doing the same thing about the vehicleʼs swimming capability. The MOD is convinced that it is better have a direct contact with the Patria of Slovak production, rather than buying a Polish vehicle built on the same chassis. The aim of the MOD is to preserve SVK armaments companies, not to lease them to others, as Mr Glváč did.
