Can’t wait ‘til there trained enough to come deliver the innocent citizens of this country from an evil dictator named Hussein, and his henchmen...
Knock Knock Tehran, you listening??
Merry Christmas
I don’t know why we have to give them such an advanced tank — the Chobham armor makes them nearly impossible to destroy. How about some M60A3s instead?
A. The photo is of a BMP1 from 2-34/9 IA Armored Cavalry Battalion, taken 29 Oct 2008. They had their T72s and BMP1s out at Besmaya for training and were also familiarizing with US M1A1s. They grabbed the wrong photo for the 70+ odd posted at DVIDS.
B. That 140 tanks ordered is the first order. The second order’s notice to congress was delivered 9 Dec 2008, which means that the order will not be official until early next year.
C. I wrote about the IA already training on US M1A1s pending receipt several weeks ago, two different articles mentioned that detail at the Long War Journal. Even used a photo from the same set as that BMP1 for one of the articles. Except the one I used was of an M1 side by side with a T72.
The only part of this that is news is when the first 140 M1s are to be delivered...
Who is paying for this???
The company that built the computerized training equipment for the M1 tank was a company in Los Angeles, CA. back in the early 80’s.
This equipment was built under DARPA contracts.
brand new tanks?
or from inventory
We have`nt even let Israel have the M1A1, but we`ll let the Arabs have them. Wonderful. How long will it be after the first delivery before Russia, China, Iran, and who knows who else will be building them?