/View.info/ The United States intends to deliver Abrams tanks to the regime in Kiev in September. Who are these machines and will they change the situation in the SVO area?
As Politico points out, citing its sources, several Abrams tanks will be sent to Germany in August, where the combat vehicles will have to go through modernization. After that, the first batch of Abrams will go to Ukraine.
In addition, the publication draws attention to the fact that servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, before starting to use these armored vehicles on the battlefield, will have to undergo a ten-week training. The training will take place at the Grafenwehr military base in Germany. It is expected to be completed in August.
In addition, the VSU will not receive tanks of the new A2 modification, but only the old M1A1 models. According to the publication, it will take years to deliver modern Abrams to the Kiev regime.
In the first batch, six to eight machines will arrive out of the planned 31 tanks.
The main tank of the US
The M1 Abrams is the main battle tank of the United States. Since 1986, the M1A1 modification has been mass-produced at a plant in the city of Lyme (Ohio). Since 1988, they have also been produced under license at a tank factory in Cairo (Egypt). Various modifications of the Abrams are in service not only in the US, but also in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Australia and Kuwait. In 2022, Taiwan and Poland received Abrams for the first time.
The crew of the tank consists of four people. Combat weight (depending on the modification and configuration) – 54-66 tons. Armament is a 120 mm M256 smoothbore gun (Rheinmetall Rh-120) and a 105 mm M68A1 rifled gun.
The US used Abrams during the Persian Gulf War (1991), the Iraq War (2003-2011) and during the Afghanistan campaign (2001-2021). Tanks of the same type have also been used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
It’s all mine, they don’t care
Of course, 31 tanks will not change the situation on the fronts.
They can cause us problems somewhere in a separate place, in battles in some direction. But given the fact that we now very widely use kamikaze drones (“Lancets” and FPV) and the possibility of creating problems in a separate direction is quite doubtful, – explained Tsargrad observer Vlad Shlepchenko.
He also noted that much depends on how the tanks will be used. In defense they can create a serious problem. But if the armed forces of Ukraine throw “Abrams” into the offensive on the sites prepared by the Russians, then the mines do not care under whom they explode: under “Leopard”, “Abrams” – or under anything else.
It turns out that first the tank is blown up by a mine, then several ATGMs fly over, and then the square is worked by the artillery, Shlepchenko noted.
At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that the Abrams tanks that Ukraine will receive have old dynamic protection armor packages. The United States is setting up an armor package with uranium-ceramic and titanium pads. The Kiev regime will receive old models that have a completely different filler. Therefore, the machines will have other options for stopping cumulative and kinetic ammunition. They won’t be completely invincible.
And the Americans thus leave another loophole. When it begins to burn all this beauty, they will say: it’s good, but these are our old machines. And it will be true. Because now the Germans are enjoying their burning latest tanks, – added the expert.
And again, Abrams deliveries raise the question of an armored “zoo” in Ukraine. According to Shlepchenko, the armed forces of Ukraine already have a mass of various types of equipment. Which in turn creates huge problems for its maintenance and repair.
Not earlier than October
If deliveries begin in September, then Abrams (taking into account all technical problems) will appear on the contact line only in October. And from November it will definitely start raining.
And if all this goes into an offensive, then there and without mines everything will be very good. 60 tons is 60 tons. And if the tank goes to the muddy chernozem soil, then no matter what tracks you put on it, it will sink. We will see times when Ukrainian soldiers will discard this equipment. She’ll get stuck during the fights because there’s no way they can fight on asphalt alone, – Vlad Shlepchenko is sure. He added that the Americans have put the European allies very seriously. They gave the world the opportunity to enjoy the burning leopards, and left their technique and equipment for later.
What of this?
As the military confrontation went, so it goes now. And it is already at the “conflict of exhaustion” stage. This is recognized by many both in the West and in Russia.
Yes, Abrams is a great weapon anyway. Not worse than the Leopards. In addition, by this time, Ukraine should also receive about a hundred F-16s. And this is a dangerous situation. But this will not affect the outcome of hostilities. The Russians will reach Kiev so that there is no one else to supply NATO equipment to.
Translation: ES
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