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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said that Germany has more than 350 active Leopard tanks and another 200 in storage.
The United States had been frustrated with Germany's efforts to pressure Washington on the subject, three U.S. officials told NBC News last week, after Berlin signaled it would be more willing to provide tanks if Washington sent its own M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference in Berlin on Tuesday that Ukraine's allies had already agreed to send a significant amount of armored vehicles and some tanks to Ukraine, with more announcements on the way.


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The sooner Ukraine receive the tanks it requested the better.  The personnel manning the tanks will get crash course to master their new tool to fight Russians. >

Saw the Challenger 2 tanks need a 6 week training course (including support).  Wonder how long it is with the leopard 2 also when they started training on them.
The mix of tanks will be interesting for tactics. >

I have zero knowledge about military things or tactics other than wiki stuff but I'm assuming they'd hope to be able to form a new tank battalion if not brigade. And/or they could mix the "diesel" tanks (Challenger 2 and Leopard 2) with T-72s and T-64s while the Abrams with the T-80s in existing formations. >

My comment was more that a variety could make defense harder.
I don't know anything around military either.  Apparently infantry is a key to tank success and been the problem for Russia.
From what I can tell.  A platoon = 4 tanks, company is 3 platoons with 2 spares/HQ (14 tanks and why this number is offered I guess?), battalion is 4 companies with 2 HQ (58).  Next is brigade and divisions.  Not sure where regiments fit or what mix of units are. >

Those are doctrinal US numbers, enabled by a large professionalized NCO corps.
Ukraine will likely continue with the Russian/soviet model because of the inexperience of their operators.  
Platoons will be three tanks (the wings mirror what the commander does instead of complex paired bounding and overwatch movements), the company has 3 platoons + a tank for the commander, and the Batallion has 3 companies + a tank for the commander, for a total of 31 tanks per batallion.
31 is not an accidental number.
14, incidentally, is just a 4-platoon company with a commander and an XO tank. >

Thank you. >

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Rift? That was healthy tension between allies on a semi-transparent, semi-secret process. >

Rift created by the media