Posted on 03/21/2023 11:36:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Pentagon is accelerating the delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine by sending refurbished older models, cutting the timeline for when they could reach the battlefield from two years to several months, according to reports on Tuesday.
The Biden administration pledged in January to send 31 advanced new M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, reversing months of reluctance to supply Kyiv with the armored vehicles because they are hard to operate and maintain.
But the new tanks would have taken a year or more to build and ship.
Officials then opted for using older versions that will be taken from Army stocks, refurbished and deployed to Ukraine in as soon as eight to 10 months.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday morning confirmed that Pentagon officials were trying to find a way to get the tanks to Ukraine faster than had been expected
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I thought Joe said it would cause World War III if he sent tanks...
Soon we will probably be hit by refurbished Russian nukes. Hopefully they will have less accuracy.
...and thereby somewhat to slightly reducing our own readiness.
Send food and clothing. It’s not about the living...it’s about making dead Russians.
Older tanks... doubt they have the technical maintenance skills, equipment, or supplies to keep them running for long.
Thank God Trump saved the only and last Abrahms tank factory in the USA from closing down!!!
I didn’t think that the C-17 had that much lifting capacity.
JATO bottles?
Too little and too late!!
a lot of jato bottles.
It isn’t a Tuesday without a threat of nuclear war from Russia.
{{{{{ yawn }}}}}
while he flirts with disaster he will send no tanks
Maybe the F-1 engine from the Saturn 5 can be built again
So they are in a war now, spring is coming, and they’ll get the tanks in 8-10 months just in time for next winter.
Dead Ukrainians too.
Took me a couple seconds to get that pun, but then was the best laugh I’ve had all week.
Seems like it was just yesterday when Biden announced were were just sending some Javelin missiles.
8-to-10 months!
No wonder every 3rd rate nation on the globe is kicking sand in our faces...
We are a leaderless nation at risk from many directions...
When they reveal the true calculations and tell us that Apophis will hit Times Square in 2 months, Biden (or his successor) will tell us that the government will accelerate the completion of the asteroid defense system and have it ready in 8-to-10 months...
Thank goodness Ukraine has enough money to pay for them. /s
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