“All storage models in US have classified armor.”
There were reports that Abrams for Ukraine wouldn’t come from US inventories. But from the ‘manufacturer’. Whatever that means.
Administration hasn’t really clarified how its going to happen.
“’‘We will get F-16s’: Ukraine aims for NATO’s fighter jets after winning battle for Western tanks”
“The dust has barely settled on the decision by the U.S. and Germany to supply battle tanks to Ukraine, but talk has already turned to the possible use of other firepower, namely, fighter jets.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude to Kyiv’s allies Wednesday regarding the sending of tanks, but said he had asked NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for more assistance.
“We have to unlock the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine, it is important for us to expand our cooperation in artillery, we have to achieve the supply of aircraft to Ukraine. And this is a dream. And this is a task,” he said in his nightly address.
Ukraine has made no secret of the fact that it would like to receive fighter jets — such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, a multirole fighter aircraft developed for the U.S. Air Force — from its allies to help it fight Russia.”
There were reports that Abrams for Ukraine wouldn’t come from US inventories. But from the ‘manufacturer’. Whatever that means.
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It means that there will be no Abrams for Ukraine as the line is tied up now with other orders like the many hundred for Poland.