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To: Red Badger

As I stated on another thread, when the US sells or gives equipment away, they give the barebones stuff. Stuff that is outdated compared to what is currently in use by our troops.

For example, Lockheed sells a country 20 F16s, through a Foreign Military Sales contract. Everything has to be approved by the State and Defense Dept and the countries, for the most part, are not getting our advanced electronics, etc. They get an airframe and an engine.

The Israelis buy F15s and then equip them with their own stuff which is just as good, if not better, than what we put in ours.

Anywho, the same would go for the Abrams. But something tells me that all of that will be throw to the wind and they won’t care what they send. There might be some junior officer that raises his/her hand to bring this point up, but they will be dismissed and probably transferred for daring to question a decision from the CINC, Austin or Milley.

Then, the Russians get marching orders to get one of the tanks, intact, so they can ship it back to Moscow for some detailed inspections.


30 posted on 01/26/2023 12:23:18 PM PST by qaz123
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To: qaz123

They get a lot more than an airframe and an engine.

The Dutch and Norwegian F-16’s for instance are Block 15, with radar and AMRAAM (radar homing missiles) capability.


53 posted on 01/26/2023 1:08:43 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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