Neighboring Poland spent $4.75 billion for an order of 250 new M1A2s, followed by $1.4 billion for 116 used M1A1s from the U.S. Undoubtedly, the Abrams battalion will be expensive. Romania’s military modernization will complement an expanded NATO defensive contingent in Romania, including a rotating multi-national battlegroup under French command, supplementing elements of the 2 nd Armored Cavalry regiment equipped with Stryker armored vehicles and a 4,000-strong brigade of the 101 st Airborne Division. Can the M1 Abrams Tank Still Outgun Russia’s Best?.Other Western nations, including the UK, Germany and the US, have now sent tanks to support the war effort. They have been in use since at least April.īefore that point Ukrainian forces had been relying on Soviet-era tanks given by its Eastern European allies. President Zelensky has thanked Emmanuel Macron, his French counterpart, for sending the tanks and defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov was filmed riding in one.įrance promised to send the armoured vehicles to Ukraine in January this year, the first such pledge of Western-made tanks. Open-source intelligence website Oryx has estimated that three such vehicles have been lost by Ukraine during fighting. He declined to show AFP reporters the AMX-10 vehicles in operation in his unit. He said that the vehicles compared unfavourably to the British-made Husky support vehicles. “Just sending out the (AMX-10) vehicles (into combat) so they get destroyed, I consider it is impractical and unnecessary because it’s primarily a risk for the crew.” But unfortunately there is thin armour and it is impractical to use them in the front line (attack),” Spartanets said. “The guns are good, the observation devices are very good. There was artillery shelling and a shell exploded near the vehicle, the fragments pierced the armour and the ammunition set detonated.”Īccording to the French defence ministry, its AMX-10 armoured combat vehicles, often dubbed “light tanks”, offer protection against light infantry fire. He said: “Unfortunately, there was one case when the crew died in the vehicle. The 34-year-old, using the call sign Spartanets, said that the armoured combat vehicles delivered by France are “impractical” for use in front-line attacks. A Ukrainian tank crew died when artillery fragments pierced the thin armour of a French-made light tank, a Ukrainian battalion commander claimed.
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