Russia and Ukraine

jack_christie said:
Scholz to announce the delivery of German Leopard tanks to Ukraine!

US to supply 200-300 Abrams!!!!!!!
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Will be interesting to see what German export licenses from April are unblocked.

Even the Swiss are reported to be going to allow some ammunition sales to UA.

Next F16's?
 
jack_christie said:
Scholz to announce the delivery of German Leopard tanks to Ukraine!

US to supply 200-300 Abrams!!!!!!!
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Where are you hearing 200-300? I heard 50 in one place and 30 in another - and that's pretty substantial, essentially a full strength armored battalion.
 
Blind_Io said:
Where are you hearing 200-300? I heard 50 in one place and 30 in another - and that's pretty substantial, essentially a full strength armored battalion.
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Probably bit too much at this stage, but it will take six to eight months to train crew and replace the DU armor with tungsten.

UA asked for something like 300MBT's and 600 IFV's, highest figure I've seen for Leopards is 114, so where are the other modern MBT's coming from?

Also about 90 T72's coming via Czechia

70+ self-propelled artillery systems: M109A6 x18, AS-90 x24, CAESAR 8x8 x19, Archer x12
 
Longer range Iranian missiles might appear later in the year:
jamestown.org

Iranian Ballistic Missiles Threaten to Change Battlefield Dynamic in Ukraine

As Russia’s war against Ukraine approaches its second year, several news outlets have reported that Moscow is eyeing two Iranian missile systems in particular as solutions to its missile shortages: the Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar (The Kyiv Independent, November 12, 2022). The main reasons for...
jamestown.org jamestown.org
 
The sacked German Defense minister hardly replaced any of what was donated to UA in the last year, despite having budget to do so :wall:
www.faz.net

Lambrecht hat Nachbestellungen für die Ukraine weitgehend versäumt

Vertrauliche Unterlagen aus dem Finanzministerium zeigen: Die meisten Bestände der Bundeswehr, die an die Ukraine geliefert wurden, blieben unersetzt, obwohl Geld dafür bereitstand.
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