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Washington APPROVES —ABRAM Tank to UKRAINE…

Despite legging behind for almost an year, Washington promised delivery of its heavily armored Abram tanks will be delivered for the Ukrainian forces within upcoming autumn.

A CNN cited news press conference US Army acquisition chief doug Bush stated the tanks are ready to be delivered for the Ukrainian forces, but have ever the overall process is considerably lengthy and complex. Because with these tanks so many other support equipment had to travel with them in order for them to be operable for their long-term rugged usage.

First they had to get to Europe, then from there it has to be transported to Ukraine  actually to the front lines of Ukraine, not to mention you Ukraine forces needs to be train on how to operate them precisely.

Bush  further clarified that with these tanks additionally ammunition required by the them spare parts, specific types of fuels that required by them and many more components all of this will be sent with these shipment of tanks. For the Ukraine front lines.

So far according to Washington military sources United States has pledged totaling of 31 Abram tanks for the Ukrainians. But however how many will be delivered within the first batch still to be revealed if not remains to be classified.

United States and Germany has started training potential Ukrainian combatants to use Abram tanks from back in May of 2023. And their training program duration expected to be 10 weeks long.

At the beginning Washington military brass has decided to provide Ukraine with most recent variant of the Abram tank known as M1A2, but afterwards have decided to completely pulled off the modernized version with much older M1A1 version of Abram tank. This move is speculated to be to prevent classified sensitive Technologies being fallen into  foreign adversary hands. That would endangered future of US military tank’s capabilities.

Bradley infantry vehicles

So far United States has provided Ukraine with about 190 Bradley infantry vehicles. Unfortunately according many statistics vast majority of them has been either damaged beyond recovery or captured by Russians even though this claim is vehemently denied by Ukrainians.

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