> I mean, I guess they could limit their military operations to temperate days, and not shoot the rifle too much to avoid these kinds of problems. It's importa

> I mean, I guess they could limit their military operations to temperate days, and not shoot the rifle too much to avoid these kinds of problems. It's important to remember that the German army's equipment was originally intended for NATO defense of western Europe, basically to defend a conventional soviet attack in Northern Germany. That's true for the tanks and armored vehicles as well, which also had issues when Germany first took them to places like Afghanistan. Germany participating in operations externally to Germany is only a thing since 1999 (Kosovo).