Kuwait will receive "virtually new" tanks M1A2 Abrams

Kuwaiti government decides to purchase 218 in USA tanks M1A2 Abrams is actually of a new construction, instead of the previously planned modernization with the overhaul of the 218 M1A2 tanks currently in service with the Kuwaiti army (delivered in 1994-1996), reports bmpd with reference to Jane's Defense Weekly.

The publication reminds that at the end of 2016, the Pentagon sent a notice to Congress about the upcoming 218 modernization of the main tanks M1A2 Abrams of the Kuwaiti army as part of the program of intergovernmental foreign military sales. The cost of the forthcoming transaction was estimated at $ 1,7 billion.

However, this month, the US military sent a new notice to lawmakers. According to the magazine, it talks about the supply to Xuangit of “218 armored corps M1A1, the same amount of 120-mm tank guns and AGT-1500 gas turbine engines (all from the US Department of Defense) for the recapitalization of MXXUMXXXUMUM tanks”.

The estimated cost of delivery will be only $ 29 million. According to the notification, Kuwait decided not to use the corps of existing M1А2 tanks "because of its interest in maintaining operational readiness."

According to the military source of the magazine, “the M1А2 tanks for Kuwait will now be manufactured anew using the former MXXUMXX1 tanks, 1-mm guns and engines mentioned in the DSCA notification. In this case, the turret of the tanks will be made anew, as well as the internal equipment of the tanks.

“The corps are the beginning of new tanks,” a source said. “Kuwait plans to purchase the remaining additional components, such as the new turrets, which should then be assembled and delivered as complete new M1A2 tanks.”

Comments

[NEXUS]

Militarization is only gaining momentum around the world. If this goes on, it will soon blaze ...

[tchoni]

This is true. When a lot of guns they can not help but shoot ....

[Lord of the Sith]

The title is M1A2, but the article is about M1A1))

[drunkram]

Symbiosis)        

[drunkram]

"Actual new Abrams tanks" don't tell my slippers, where does the US get new Abrams? Or are the hulls no longer considered the main element of the tank?
Again the old stuff was shoved - they saved a bunch of attendants for recycling + income for repairs and modernization in the future. Five-plus scheme.

[jjj]

So these tanks and engines do not produce new ones. All through kapitalku

[Wolka]

and why do the Saudis have so much “iron”, they cannot and cannot know how to fight all

[Wedmak]

Something nifiga did not understand. Kuwait has M1A2 that need to be repaired and modernized. But he thought, he buys hulls from the M1A1, guns and engines, orders the construction of new towers and new equipment for them in full. And it comes to him cheaper than upgrading M1A2 ?? Yes besides 58 times !!
I feel somewhere cheating, but I don’t understand where.

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Wedmak

I feel somewhere cheating, but I don’t understand where.

Duc .... I would know the ransom, I would live in .... Abu Dhabi!

[Kent0001]

It would be better if we ordered new t-90s, they burn worse than Abramsov. By the way, they already have BMP-3s.

[Herculesic]

The Kuwaiti usa has been built well, the hulls are old, only the towers and the filling are “remake”! And will the KAZs come complete, or is it just for yourself? And will there be dynamic protection on them? ?

[BMP-2]

Kuwait avenges Saddam Hussein and undermines the US defense: just one purchase - and the United States lose 5% of its main tanks!

[padded jacket]

It is interesting and they write off the Yugoslav M-84 or have already written off?

[Holoy]

And where are they Yugoslav?

[padded jacket]

Kuwaiti Army - 150 M84 tanks are licensed copies of the T-72 made in Yugoslavia

[Gray brother]

Not a bit, not beautiful. Without run across Russia.

[Mih1974]

Eee, few people have tanks "with mileage in Russia", perhaps only in Russia itself. All the rest have “run” with us and ended

[Sergey-8848]

Cases, new cases, systems. Who in this army will manage all this?
None of the arabs

[Drako]

The Pentagon has sent Congress a notice of upcoming upgrade of 218 M1A2 main tanks at $ 1,7 billion.
this month, they say about “deliveries” to Kuwait of 218 armored vehicles of the M1A1 tanks, the same number of 120-mm tank guns and gas turbine engines AGT-1500 (all from the presence of the US Department of Defense) the cost of delivery will be only $ 29 million
Conclusion - 29 million was completely written off, nobody did and will not do anything other than paperwork, damn it, give me access to the US budget, I’ll start building the Death Star, and I’ll buy the floor of Ukraine at the same time, under the nanomaterial factories, launching pads for building reusable suborbital transport barges, training for future engineers and pilots, and what I can not buy, I will rent for cafes and bars, but the future "Earth defenders" need to rest somewhere ...

[vvp2412]

Abrams tanks are no longer manufactured. Engines all the more .. I doubt very much that the Americans would give the GTE to someone !? We have been missing for a long time ...

[gukoyan]

New Abrams?
So they have not been produced for a long time ... Capitalize and put in order))
In short, Omerikats decided to deceive again)))
Business, nothing personal)))