Lara Seligman – Politico Aug 31, 2023
A group of Ukrainian soldiers have completed a training program on U.S. M1 Abrams tanks, a lethal new weapon officials hope can help Kyiv break through Russia’s entrenched defenses.
Around 200 Ukrainians have practiced on trainer tanks at U.S. Army training areas in Germany, said spokesperson Col. Martin O’Donnell. The soldiers recently completed one of the last phases of the program, a combined arms, battalion force-on-force exercise at Hohenfels Training Area.
The soldiers are working to ensure they stay proficient on the tanks at Grafenwoehr Army base in Germany until the tanks are ready for the battlefield, O’Donnell said.
Ukraine is slated to receive the first ten of 31 promised Abrams tanks in mid-September, according to a Defense Department official and another person familiar with the discussions, who like others interviewed for this story was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive plans. Western officials hope the arrival of the tanks will give Kyiv’s forces the edge they need to push through Russia’s fierce defenses in their grueling counteroffensive.
Ten of the 70-ton tanks are currently in Germany undergoing final refurbishments, said the DOD official. Once that is complete, they will be shipped to Ukraine.
“The U.S. is committed to expedite delivery of the 31 tanks to Ukraine by the fall,” said O’Donnell. He declined to provide a specific timeline.
The news comes as U.S. and Ukrainian officials said that Ukraine had penetrated Russia’s main defensive line for the first time in the country’s southeast, raising their hopes that Ukraine may be able to begin retaking significant territory. Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley spoke Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, to discuss the war, according to a press release from Milley’s office.
A second Defense Department official cautioned that while the move marks a “tangible success” in Ukraine’s so far slow-moving counteroffensive, it should not be seen as a “big breakthrough.” Russian forces remain entrenched along a 600-mile front line, and Ukraine’s soldiers must force their way through fields laden with mines and hand-dug foxholes.
U.S. officials hope that the Abrams tanks, when they do arrive, can help give Ukraine an edge as it struggles to retake territory.
“Tanks are very important, both to the defense and the offense,” said Milley in June. “Upgraded modern tanks, the training that goes with it, the ability to use them, will be fundamental to Ukrainian success.”
The Abrams is “one hell of an armored vehicle,” said a third DOD official. But “it’s not a silver bullet. Ultimately, it’s Ukraine’s determination to break through that matters most.”
The Abrams tanks are part of a force of roughly 300 tanks pledged by Western allies, including Leopard 2 tanks from Spain and Germany, Challenger tanks from the UK, and light Leclerc tanks from France.
Standby to watch Abrams being turned into mincemeat.
Do you remember the invincible Israeli Merkava tanks in the Lebanon war?
Drones and satellites will spot the tanks a long ways from the front line. Missiles will be fired with pinpoint accuracy, and the Abram turret will be blown skyward and everyone inside turned into charcoal.
It would be far cheaper and more humane to just take the Abram tanks and push them into the Atlantic ocean.
But unfortunately for the Ukes, they are going to experience horrible deaths as Russia picks off the Abrams tanks – which will prove to everyone the age of the tank has come to an end.
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putin should just bomb israel
finish
31 Abrams tanks with their armour taken off and replaced with plate.
The Abrams tank has a very good gun. The rest is rubbish. It has a huge HOT fuel thirsty turbine engine which makes it an easy target, and it is notoriously unreliable. War criminal General Kimmits turned up at Fallujah, and all his tanks ran out of fuel.
The Russians have three very well thought out lines of defence. There’s one flattened village that all the pundits use. The Nazis move into one half of the village, and then Russia sells and bombs the shit out of them. In front of these three lines of defense is a crumple zone. It’s designed to let the Nazis die. The Nazi media go on about a 200m gain as a success, but they’ve lost 400 men and 50 items of hardware.
We hear that Challanger tanks are being used. I doubt it. I bet they’re no where near the fighting. So fragile is British military prestige, that the lost of one British Nazi tank would be a severe body blow, and I doubt the Abrams tanks will arrive before Christmas.
Looks like ZOG is planning to drag this Orwellian war out for years– so as to kill off as many Aryans as they can in their mission to create an all nonwhite planet: Whiteocide. Only a few people on here are able to penetrate behind the CIA/KGB ZOG disinfo..
Thank you for this excellent analysis, Carl Jones.
A single Russian T72 tankcrew takes out 8 or more armoured vehicles here in one move,
Looks Abrams or Challengers become unsaleable in the future:
https://m.vk.com/video-45395769_456253428
Tanks meant something in 1916: today they are for Jewish cowards to take on Palestinian children
This is just another “Gift” to Russia with Love from the Biden Administration. These tanks will quickly be overwhelmed and abandoned by the Ukrainians as they encounter Russia’s Integrated Defenses and 8,000 tanks. Then they’ll be able to RE them and find all their weaknesses. Russia celebrated the Battle of Kursk while the US sticks its own head up its own ass and enjoys it! Don’t ask don’t tell. Congratulations on another self inflicted wound Amerika!
Hmmm.. looks like the Chieftan Tank – the pride of THICK Brittania – hasnt made it to the front yet…
nor is it likely to… now that “tank-commander” Ben Wallace has been thrown out on his dumb arse!
🤣😅😂
erratum: chieftan = challenger
…. not that it makes a difference!😄
when some unbelievers will understand that all
western governments are worshipers of israhell
but also india, china, russia, japan + surely also
North Korea . so dont hope that any nation will
touch them .
This Abrams wonder tank “that will turn the tide” against Russia in the Ukraine war is a sad joke being played on the public.
Tanks are useless in modern combat against a modern state that has trained crews to annihilate armor. This was proven long ago when Israel stupidly invaded Lebanon with their holy invincible Merkava tanks – which were blown sky high by Hezbollah with wire guided missiles.
Israel lost it’s ass against mere guerillas with short range weapons:
https://yandex.com/images/search?from=tabbar&lr=20991&text=destroyed%20merkava%20tanks%20lebanon%20war
Can you imagine what is going to happen to those Abrams? It will be like shooting ducks in a pond, the only question for the commander is who gets the fun job of blowing it away.
Russia has satellites and drones, and up to the second battlefield intel. This is not WW2 folks when you first see a German tank coming over the hill into your village. Russians are watching the tanks getting loaded in port, unloaded, trucked, railed to the front line. Analysts will be making bets in Moscow where the Uke commanders will apply the Abrams to the war.
By the time the Abrams tank gets near the front line, Russia will have electronically tagged that tank for it’s 8,000 mile journey to it’s final resting place when it gets blown away by some drone operator or the weapons officer in the back seat of the attack jet. They know where those tanks are right now, they are watching those tanks right now. There is no hiding a tank from a satellite, nor on the battlefield because the damn thing burns massive quantities of diesel and has a gigantic heat signature.
The joke here is that the Amerikan slave taxpayers are being financially raped by this stupid war in which only Jews benefit. And all of Congress is guilty as hell for approving even one red cent being wasted in the Ukraine, which has no strategic interest to the safety of the Amerikan slave population. Only Jews want this war because Jews want a Khazar mobster state created in the image and likeness of Israhell. Jews want a Eurohub for the sex slave trade, child trafficking, organ harvesting and to control the Eurasia energy supplies –
https://dayan.org/sites/default/files/inline-images/oxford-the-ukrainian-pipeline-system.jpg
And oh yeah, don’t forget the climate and mother nature, what is the carbon footprint to make a tank, ship it, train the crews, then blow it away? Of course no one will talk about the environmental damage of this war, or what it costs to air and water quality, or how it pollutes the farm land.
This war is a horrible joke on the world, and Jews must be fuming over the total loss. So what will the Jew do now? Attack Iran –
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/08/31/report-us-israel-to-conduct-joint-drills-simulating-attacks-on-iran/
I sure hope the Zionists launch an all out attack on Iran, because I am damn tired of waiting and listening to Bibi Satanyahu whine about Iran and nukes.
I pray to God that Tel Aviv is turned into a bombed out shithole.
Rarotflmfao, as if these pieces of shit are going to do anything..
“The news comes as U.S. and Ukrainian officials said that Ukraine had penetrated Russia’s main defensive line for the first time in the country’s southeast, ”
Ukrainians are getting creamed.