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FOR THE EMPEROR!
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 73%. (I'm a bot)


The Biden administration has approved sending 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as international reluctance to send tanks to the battlefront against the Russians begins to erode.
The news came after Germany confirmed it will make 14 of its Leopard 2A6 tanks available for Ukraine's war effort, and give partner countries its permission to re-export other battle tanks to aid Kyiv.
The US has resisted providing its own M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, citing extensive and complex maintenance and logistical challenges with the hi-tech vehicles.


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I find it annoying that they specify the A6 variant of the Leopard 2, but they don't tell us which M1 Abrams they're getting.  1a1?  1a2?  Fancy upgrade kits? >

We probably won’t see one in action until late spring-early summer at the earliest since they will have to train crews for the tanks >

Not even then. They aren't giving them tanks out of the current stock -- they are building them. From WaPo:

The U.S. tanks — to be purchased from manufacturers rather than transferred from existing American military stockpiles — will not arrive for months, if not years. Administration officials have emphasized that the M1s are part of long-range planning for Ukraine’s armed forces rather than weapons that will be put to immediate use. >

We have stock piles of tanks sitting in the desert brand fucking new because congress refused to listen to the army to stop making them. >

I mean, just look at Europe, they've suddenly realized they don't have enough tanks or shells to sustain a modern defensive campaign. >

We continued to make them because it was jobs and money going to particular areas... we could have shifted that to produce what we really needed.
That's the past... now we are acting like we don't have the tanks to give? We are purposely delaying... >

We are purposely giving handouts to General Dynamics and whatever other defense companies we're ordering brand new equipment from rather than sending already stockpiled equipment that likely isn't going to be needed. 
I was only in a reserve unit, but we only used like half of the hmmwvs we had in the motor pool. The rest just sat around. Probably until they're replaced by the new general purpose truck. >

Go Abrams. Go do what you were originally disigned to do. >

Abrams tanks: "Brothers, we are free to perform our prime directive. Onwards!" >

Idk why I read this in a Dalek voice but now I can’t change how I read it >

Nah that’s an Adeptus Astartes voice