Posted on 01/25/2023 9:08:29 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
After weeks of discussion, the Biden administration is preparing to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine, according to three senior U.S. officials.......
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Keep poking the bear. and when he has had enough, poof.
Without substantial artillery and air cover these just become targets.
That is the Plan. Continue prodding him until he reacts. The Neo Cons will keep prodding until they get what they want. Which is all out nuclear war with Russia. It may take them 3 months, 6 months, 6 years but they will keep poking and prodding until they get what they want. They believe that they can survive a nuclear war with Russia.
Hey, here’s an idea. Let’s send equipment, advisors, trainers into a combat zone against a nuclear armed adversary. Then we’ll need to create a safe area where our trainers and advisors can train and advise so we’ll need air power. Then we’ll need to protect the air bases with more advisors.then we’ll need secure logistical areas to support the trainers and air assets. Then we can send in forces to protect the logistical hubs. 1964 called and they said “DON’T DO IT”..
31 is the mirror of the 13, the most common number used for the bloodline family count.
Common folk have been taught to fear “13” as unlucky, so many (if not most) buildings will skip designating a 13th floor on elevators.
For our betters, 31 (13) is their fingerprint, telling those in the know that this exercise is being controlled by the Deep State. (Get on board if you know what’s good for you!)
Sending equipment into a combat zone, yes, but advisors and trainers are sent to NATO countries like Poland, where the Ukrainians are trained on the equipment(tanks).
One in OIF during the mid 2000s was disabled by an RPG-7. That was a big deal because it was thought that wasn’t possible. Combat research people inspected that tank for a year trying to figure it out.
Some were also disabled by large IEDs.
Now, these weren’t destroyed, but the crew was either incapacitated or the tank was unable to continue its mission.
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Good to know. Thanks.
Egypt has over a thousand Abrams.
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Egypt builds them under license.
There has been no, NO, US equipment from Ukraine sold on the Black Market except in Russian propaganda pieces. All US to Ukraine military is tracked.
No spare parts, no maintenance, scrap heap. Tanks require constant maintenance missing a week becomes a problem, missing a month is as big deal, missing more than a month, the whole tank needs to be reconditioned.
Send from Afghanistan?
Right?
5.56mm
Thank you.
The money quote, IMHO:
“The tanks would be paid for through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which draws weapons and equipment from private industry rather than from the U.S. stockpile.”
See? Its magic! It will be paid for by something called the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, something most American have no idea what the hell that is. So its magic money that goes through this USAI thing. And then, it “draws the weapons and equipment”. They just draw them, they don’t buy them. See?
This is a classic example of how the propaganda media massages information to render it into mush. The article should have said something in plain English about the fact that this equipment is being paid for by American Taxpayers, who have to borrow the money and pay interest on the money, and the equipment is being bought with this Taxpayer money to military contractors who are donating massive sums of money to the campaign coffers of the politicians who voted to steal our money and give it to them.
Ladies and Gentlemen: we are way past “no taxation without representation”.
I defer to anyone with experience on this issue. I am hearing conflicting stories. But, armies need maintenance.
Although, I cannot imagine an American Primary battle tank being THAT timid. Jets? Yup…I believe that. But tanks designed for Deserts and European plains would be that fragile? That makes no sense.
So they aren’t being paid for by taxpayers. That’s cool.
I thought that’s what all you guys were worried about?
I cannot keep the complaints straight.
Huh? Whatchoo talkin’ ‘bout? My whole point is that the article masks the critical fact that taxpayers are paying for this crap.
The West is becoming more willing to send better weapons because we have become confident in the Ukrainian fighting capabilities and their effective use of the weapons they are given.
It not fragility - tanks are complex modern ones more so. They need weekly maintenance - is that so hard to understand?
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