Posted on 01/27/2023 7:36:09 PM PST by massmike
The Biden administration administration's plan to send Ukraine a battalion of lethal Abrams tanks will be hampered by the production timeframe and the Pentagon's insistence that it does not have any in surplus, the Defense Department revealed Thursday.
Unlike some of the high-tech weaponry the U.S. has been shipping to Ukraine as part of a multi-billion effort to deter Russia's invasion, the U.S. military does not 'have these tanks available in excess in our U.S. stocks,' deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh' told reporters.
The means it could take months before the tanks, which President Biden called the most capable in the world, reach their destination. It is anyone's guess what the state of play in the war will be at that point. The one-year anniversary of Russia's brutal invasion is approaching.
Officials said it could take up to a year before the the Ukrainian military is using Abrams tanks on the ground to try to retake territory captured by the Russians – with fears of a new Russian offensive this spring.
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Jeez… can’t we simply send them some in poor or non-working order? After all it’s the thought that counts. Plus with non-working tanks NO UKRAINIANS WILL GET KILLED.
>> Send them some shit my local cops have.
LOL! FBI has some “hardware” they don’t need, as well.
Now that I think about it, what the heck, send the FBI agents along with the hardware.
This doesn’t feel like winning. It feels bad man.
Send them some used pinball parts.
$850 billion a year doesn’t buy what it used to!
I thought we had around 5000 tanks?
Now we are talking.
as MTG said, he is a threat to national security, giving the gdmf country away, in a fivht tjat cannot be determined if WE shall win or lose!!
sadly
Biden never intended to send those tanks. He’s just stalking, hoping Putin wins.
Damaged by what?
Seriously. You can send 10 thousand horses for the cost of one tank.
Tanks suck. They are 90 year old technology. What do they do?
Ooh tanks. Runaway from the tanks until the guys inside have to come out to pee.
I’m seriously disappointed in this stupid war. It seems so 20th century.
Fvcking neocons make crap wars. Tanks? Seriously? Fix bayonettes!
It may come as a surprise to some, but the US does not stockpile the export version of tanks for possible or transfer.
Yes, only 10,288 of them had been produced as of 2017. The writer of the piece is clueless.
The Pentagon press secretary has been implying that the tanks going to Ukraine will be newly built for Ukraine. Don’t know why.
But there’s a war, so it’s hard to tell what they’re really going to do. They simply won’t tell all to the general public during a war for obvious reasons.
Several countries have stocks on M-60s that they might be happy to trade in for newer models.
We don’t even use depleted uranium, solid,
Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds anymore because they vaporise on contact with the target and radioactively polute the battlefield. We use tungsten rounds now.
The ships transporting the tanks across the Atlantic are liable to be torpedoed by the Russian navy with considerable loss of life. Would that be considered an act of war committed by Russia? A friend wants to know. I could give him the answer but he would be pissed. I’d rather have Freepers be pissed at me.
Maybe we’ll run out of other things to give away and stop the madness already
I think we should just go ahead and invade Ukraine to stop Russia.
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