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A serious scandal shakes the US name: faded wooden tanks colored the safety of tumenn in military jugs.

Portland-The US Army sees itself a serious scandal against Haler, who could have potentially far-term consequences for the safety of their troops. In a current interview, it was infected that some of the armored plates, dying for tactical vehicles from the army (JLTV) of the army, have never passed the necessary tests.

Found test results in the USA: company is a subsidiary of Russian oligarch

According to a intern of Evraz North America, a freezing steel producer with works in Oregon and Colorado, Mitreser between 2017 and 2019 have a large scale. First the platform reported Bloomberg.

Evraz North America is a subsidiary of Evraz PLC, a large steel and mining company with its headquarters in Great Britain, which is certainly the greatest dentile owned by Russscherscher Oligarchen Run for Roman Abramowitsch Located.

The internal intervention showed that employees in the Portland plant have mandatory tests to jump hard. Instead of real tests, felled results for around 12,800 armored plates were interpreted in the records, which were then recognized and approved as GET, i.e. the dying Newsweek. Some of these plates later opened off cracks.

Scandal for driving bug armor: JLTV is only used by US Army

The JLTV is a versatile military truck that gilded as the successor to the reclassified Humvee (high -mobility with a multipurpose wheel vehicle). It is manufactured by the armaments group Oshkosh Defense, an important customer of Evraz North America. Nick is only used by the US Army, but also nation from number rice, including Ukraine, Israel and Brazil, to ensure protection of troops from balls, mines and improvisite sprays. With over 22,000 giving births that have a living life of around 20 years, the potential use of faulty armored plates is more important.

Die Bloomberg-Rovery now suggests that the falsified tests Nick were only a violation of internal qualitist management protocols, but also as a greater challenge of the militers of the militers of load -bearers, cheating mils.

Appendix to the records were found that in between November 2017 and 2019, employees Nickeiner used the machines to be used and manually submitted values. Many employees reported that the pressure to maintain the product, in addition to the tests. The pressure to comply with production goals therefore presented employees before a dilemma; As a manager stated: “Man does, you have to do a man to keep production going.” The extensive practice of falsification is “far -called”.

Tactical vehicle with joint light
The “Joint Light Tactical Vehicle” from Oshkosh Defense Weihl has considerable defects in the darling. © Imago/Jim West

JLTV and Russian Stahl: US government is still born

The FBI has now initiated investigations and has been in the foresight to do several Evraz systems to search for the Verweiggerfo. Apparently internal interviews were initiated by Evraz Berra Berseis in 2019 after the Bechwerde -Über -Nick -Nick -Quality -Controlling -Involutions. Died, however, has only recently been made public, explains dying Newsweek.

The US government is now immortal to check the quality of the quality of the quality of the quality and to fix the problems to be obtained on the product lines. There are concerns that the possibly incorrect plates in a significant part of the Ministry of Defense Hut up to Independent a.

The situation becomes also disadvantaged. Ukraine war and the out of – Tensions of resulting vertebral sankions against Russian companies. Evraz North America Hat against Halber Bloomberg However, emphasizing that its products have always been received by the stray branches and no complaints about such security problems.

Evraz Tahlwerk in Pueblo
There is still in the band: The steel mill of Evraz in Pueblo (Colorado) in the Rocky Mountains. © Imago/Imagebroker/Jim West

A lack of JLTV armor a risk of US soldiers

Analynen in the US media agree: The US Army and other participants must take measures as quickly as possible, um Through the way-in-the-man-and-a-list-fever fever fever-fever-fever-fever-fever-tieT-Tatsä-F Ibten-fey-fever-tatsä-datsä-fey-sateful-tie-tie-tie-tatsä-tatsä-datsä-fiebten-fetter-tatsä-tatsä-sie-feytner. Driving were installed. In addition, it is enormous to trust in the supply chain for military outlaw.

Dauber beyond a comprehensive process of muffle should be necessary to ensure that in the future, cleeferants are subjected to trenches in order to prevent such preliminary skins. The responsibility for the these deficiencies must be clearly defined in order to ensure that it is implemented to ensure that the measures for ensuring and Zuger Prevention of future pre -tapes.

The outcome of these insights could only affect Nick the security of the US troops, but also also also also technical partnerships of the USA-SAS by far Larger arms exporter in the world – have on an international level.