Not smart to spar insults with a professional comedian. As always, Zelenskyy delivers the burn.
Trejasmens on
Thats an idea for patch, guys! Ukrainian housewifes!
DragonflyFuture4638 on
Papperger should try driving a Leopard 6 or a Lynx in drone-infested areas. He would be as safe as in his office in Germany or Switzerland aboard the best armored vehicles in the world. Sarcasm over.
Puzzleheaded-Heat446 on
Papenburgs comment also didn’t go down very well in Germany
ThePheebs on
Ukraine is literally the world leader in drone manufacturing, development, and usage. The CEO is showing his ass.
Stunning_Ride_220 on
Innovation:”Producing stuff in days in a Kitchen, what the rest of the industry takes months”
JuiceMassive7894 on
“I congratulate our defence industry on this high level” 😂
LorenzoSparky on
People should have learnt by now, don’t fuck with zelensky, bro’s sharp as a razor 😎
Broad_Pitch_7487 on
Really love this guy.
1Multri on
If a $1 kitchen knife can chop a carrot, do you really need a $1000 knife? I think this is a good example. The drones that they are making are all about cost efficiency. They are going to blow up anyway, so if the goal is to take out a shahed drone, why would you need something that costs $1m per shot when something that costs $1k can do the same job, with nearly the same sucess rate.
Kitchen_Roof7236 on
The MIC is threatened
Texas_Kimchi on
I love this guy so much. Me and my wife watched a ton of Kvartal 95 shows and he has a very distinct sense of humor that works well for politics.
Old_Fart52 on
Seems like Papperger has come down with a nasty case of ‘foot in mouth disease’, poor chap.
Giantmufti on
We should thank him. It’s now obvious to most how slow leaning and adapting our top brass and politicians are. They are mentally stuck. Rigid. We need these people for stability and slow improvement s times, but please, get off when change is needed. You kill us.
Buttella88 on
He’s probably just pissed he can’t sell his own drones for 10x the price Ukraine is producing them
mrahab100 on
Papenburg should be managing a kitchen instead of a company.
truebastard on
What is really happening is different players posturing themselves for those juicy defense contracts with the Gulf states who suddenly found themselves very exposed to drones, while being very flush with cash.
BreezeTempest on
It’s probably not the statement itself, but the clear lack of understanding the next generation of weapons that is causing the stock value drop.
BreezeTempest on
Probably not the statement itself, but the clear lack of acknowledging the next generation of weapons is what is causing the stock drop.
livingdots on
No wonder the stock is plummeting. His comments just showed how behind the times these old defense companies are. Many new defense technology companies, like Germany’s Helsing, may soon offer products that surpass anything Rehinmetal has for significantly less.
Free-Way-9220 on
Seems like a perfect post for leopards at my face (which I appear to have been banned from for reasons unknown)
horror-pangolin-123 on
Anyone shitting on Ukrainian drones that have been in use in combat for years is a dumb fuck. A CEO sitting in a cozy office certainly qualifies.
Jim-be on
Does kitchen built mean “cheap” as in poorly made? I thought the whole idea of these drones was to be cost effective. Easily put together and scaled to be made in mass. Perhaps the Germans can’t think outside of their box of not over engineering something. I guarantee you that the American major companies are worried because drone warfare means the end of their business model. Expensive high profit weapon.
ChromaticStrike on
Regardless of who is right or wrong, the tone was so out of place, he knew that since he tried to mitigate the damage. Can we stop the trumpification of “official” talks?
ClassroomMother8062 on
Go sit down and shut the fuck up, Mr. Papperger
SufficientTerm6681 on
From article: *”Papperger compared Ukrainian drone development to “playing with Lego” and said, “This is not the technology of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics or Rheinmetall… These are Ukrainian housewives. They have 3D printers in their kitchens and produce parts for drones. This is not innovation.”*
Based on those quotes, he sounds like one of those executives who clings to a position of authority only because they’re good at playing the internal politics their company. These guys often end up seriously damaging their firm because they’re incapable of recognising the environment the company operates in has gone through a rapid transformation. He reminds me of the IBM leadership who watched the development of desktop PCs, dismissed them as toys, and continued to insist that IBM’s business model of the 1960s was just fine, because businesses would forever continue to buy their hugely expensive mainframe computers and Selectric typewriters.
SeeMarkFly on
A true diplomat.
Formal_Alfalfa3289 on
Slava Ukraini!
I don’t believe that the stock going down has anything to do with this comment from the company’s CEO. The company had big expectations and high goals for revenue but fell short of their target. That’s most likely why we are seeing the drop. The decline has been going on for a while. Since the end of January at least.
Art_Questioner on
Any CEO of a defense industry company that manages to depreciate its value during a war time should be fired immediately.
Satesh400 on
Rheinmetall are a critical defense contractor for a bunch of European powers. The CEO of it should be behaving more respectfully towards a country currently the only active bulwark to a Russia that fully wants to rest Rheinmetall products.
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Not smart to spar insults with a professional comedian. As always, Zelenskyy delivers the burn.
Thats an idea for patch, guys! Ukrainian housewifes!
Papperger should try driving a Leopard 6 or a Lynx in drone-infested areas. He would be as safe as in his office in Germany or Switzerland aboard the best armored vehicles in the world. Sarcasm over.
Papenburgs comment also didn’t go down very well in Germany
Ukraine is literally the world leader in drone manufacturing, development, and usage. The CEO is showing his ass.
Innovation:”Producing stuff in days in a Kitchen, what the rest of the industry takes months”
“I congratulate our defence industry on this high level” 😂
People should have learnt by now, don’t fuck with zelensky, bro’s sharp as a razor 😎
Really love this guy.
If a $1 kitchen knife can chop a carrot, do you really need a $1000 knife? I think this is a good example. The drones that they are making are all about cost efficiency. They are going to blow up anyway, so if the goal is to take out a shahed drone, why would you need something that costs $1m per shot when something that costs $1k can do the same job, with nearly the same sucess rate.
The MIC is threatened
I love this guy so much. Me and my wife watched a ton of Kvartal 95 shows and he has a very distinct sense of humor that works well for politics.
Seems like Papperger has come down with a nasty case of ‘foot in mouth disease’, poor chap.
We should thank him. It’s now obvious to most how slow leaning and adapting our top brass and politicians are. They are mentally stuck. Rigid. We need these people for stability and slow improvement s times, but please, get off when change is needed. You kill us.
He’s probably just pissed he can’t sell his own drones for 10x the price Ukraine is producing them
Papenburg should be managing a kitchen instead of a company.
What is really happening is different players posturing themselves for those juicy defense contracts with the Gulf states who suddenly found themselves very exposed to drones, while being very flush with cash.
It’s probably not the statement itself, but the clear lack of understanding the next generation of weapons that is causing the stock value drop.
Probably not the statement itself, but the clear lack of acknowledging the next generation of weapons is what is causing the stock drop.
No wonder the stock is plummeting. His comments just showed how behind the times these old defense companies are. Many new defense technology companies, like Germany’s Helsing, may soon offer products that surpass anything Rehinmetal has for significantly less.
Seems like a perfect post for leopards at my face (which I appear to have been banned from for reasons unknown)
Anyone shitting on Ukrainian drones that have been in use in combat for years is a dumb fuck. A CEO sitting in a cozy office certainly qualifies.
Does kitchen built mean “cheap” as in poorly made? I thought the whole idea of these drones was to be cost effective. Easily put together and scaled to be made in mass. Perhaps the Germans can’t think outside of their box of not over engineering something. I guarantee you that the American major companies are worried because drone warfare means the end of their business model. Expensive high profit weapon.
Regardless of who is right or wrong, the tone was so out of place, he knew that since he tried to mitigate the damage. Can we stop the trumpification of “official” talks?
Go sit down and shut the fuck up, Mr. Papperger
From article: *”Papperger compared Ukrainian drone development to “playing with Lego” and said, “This is not the technology of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics or Rheinmetall… These are Ukrainian housewives. They have 3D printers in their kitchens and produce parts for drones. This is not innovation.”*
Based on those quotes, he sounds like one of those executives who clings to a position of authority only because they’re good at playing the internal politics their company. These guys often end up seriously damaging their firm because they’re incapable of recognising the environment the company operates in has gone through a rapid transformation. He reminds me of the IBM leadership who watched the development of desktop PCs, dismissed them as toys, and continued to insist that IBM’s business model of the 1960s was just fine, because businesses would forever continue to buy their hugely expensive mainframe computers and Selectric typewriters.
A true diplomat.
Slava Ukraini!
I don’t believe that the stock going down has anything to do with this comment from the company’s CEO. The company had big expectations and high goals for revenue but fell short of their target. That’s most likely why we are seeing the drop. The decline has been going on for a while. Since the end of January at least.
Any CEO of a defense industry company that manages to depreciate its value during a war time should be fired immediately.
Rheinmetall are a critical defense contractor for a bunch of European powers. The CEO of it should be behaving more respectfully towards a country currently the only active bulwark to a Russia that fully wants to rest Rheinmetall products.