US official: We don't want the Russians to know in advance when we deliver Abrams tanks to Ukraine

Earlier this year, the Pentagon announced that it would send to Ukraine Tanks Abrams manufactured by General Dynamics Land Systems. Since then, US Department of Defense officials have said they are considering various options, including building new tanks or removing existing older tanks from US stocks.

U.S. Army Assistant Secretary for Manning Doug Bush said the Army already has a plan to provide Ukrainians with tanks in the near future.

We are fulfilling it. We just can't talk about the details

- he said.

Armed Forces Secretary Christine Wormuth said late last month that the Army would not be able to deliver tanks to Ukraine for at least a few months and would likely not begin deliveries until later this year.

There are longer terms involved here, but I think there are options for less than two years, or even less than a year and a half.

- she said.

According to Bush, sending tanks to Ukraine is not an easy procedure.

It's not just sending a tank. The tank itself is not full combat capability, you must send the whole package. This includes ammunition, vehicles to maintain it, fuel, you must be trained in the operation of the system so that it can be maintained in combat

- he said.

In addition, Doug Bush commented that the US Army needs to prepare equipment for shipment in such a way that it does not affect the combat readiness of US Army units and does not affect the supply of equipment to other allies, which Washington is also working on to fulfill their order.

He added that the Pentagon is not yet ready to announce a delivery timeline for the Abrams to Ukraine and will probably never announce an "exact" schedule.

We don't want the Russians to know in advance when we will deliver Abrams tanks to Ukraine, when our equipment will arrive. But we try to do it as quickly as possible

Bush said.

The words are more like an excuse that Washington is in no hurry to supply Kyiv with its tanks.

Comments

[opuonmed]

complete nonsense they drive war is war !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tatyana]

"We don't want the Russians to know in advance when we will supply Abrams tanks to Ukraine, when our equipment will arrive. But we try to do it as quickly as possible," Bush said.

In principle, Washington can supply Abrams tanks to Ukraine even now. Namely.

Because American military equipment after the latest NATO maneuvers in Poland is still standing in the Polish port - and Zelensky resolutely wants to get it. right now.

However, on the other hand, now in the United States Biden has already become a real threat of possible impeachment - including in connection with the ineffective excess of American financial and military assistance to the same Ukraine - its Nazi Kyiv regime - against Russia.
under the threat of resignation from the side of already 14 demands of the trumpists Biden's team is also now: 1) gene. US Attorney Merrick Brian Garland, 2) vice president kamala haris, 3) Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin and 4) Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Majorcas.
And while these tampist demands did not succeed, but they are quite seriously recognized as a "road map" for a possible judicial investigation of the acts of Biden and his team in the remaining term of Biden as President of the United States.

This, in a certain sense, ties Biden's hands in Ukraine, not knowing what to decide on.

US military equipment in a port in Poland on March 5, 2023.
It was deployed, among other things, as part of the Atlantic Resolve mission to strengthen NATO's eastern flank against the backdrop of Russia's alleged "aggression".

[tralflot1832]

Probably afraid of the "Russian partisans" from the state of Ohio, for some reason trains often go off the rails.

[dmi.pris1]

No, it's really different. They need a "lightweight option" to do. So that the armor and the windbreaker do not fall into our hands

[Prisoner]

Mattresses have a well-known principle. In the beginning, we will eat yours, then each his own (by the way, the non-brothers have a canoe). He will leave Europe without tanks, and then he will sell the abrashki to them for denyuzhka.

[nellyjuri]

Do you have a plan Mr. Fix? I always have a plan, Mr Fix.

[tralflot1832]

But seriously, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have molds earlier. They will burn, then the ears of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and not the Abrams from a dead donkey.

[Ross xnumx]

US official: We don't want the Russians to know in advance when we deliver Abrams tanks to Ukraine

The only thing you are afraid of is that the vaunted American technology will start to burn, as the German "tigers" and "panthers" once burned ...
And they will burn! And do not rely on their "advertising advantage"!

[75 Sergey]

Haven't we declared the States a country of support for terrorism and fascism yet?
Strange somehow¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Constantine N]

when and most importantly how much. it is unlikely that there will be a couple of dozen in total

[GELEZNII_KAPUT]

Wangyu, right after Leopards-2 runs out, if they have time of course!

[Senator Om]

The United States spent about a trillion dollars on the war in Afghanistan. Abrams is worth a couple million. So think.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote from Senator Om

The United States spent about a trillion dollars on the war in Afghanistan. Abrams is worth a couple million. So think.

In the USA, there is only one plant left in Ohio that produces Abrams, in the amount of 12 pieces per year + Egypt also rivets some under license, but what they do is already in contracts. So it’s problematic to rivet a bunch of new tanks for banderlogs. The only option is to share yours. In Europe, the Leopard is the main attack tank, and only Poland has Abrams, but they are unlikely to be given to the Banderlogs, since all the Leopards give their logs. So the mattresses will try to scrape the barrels in other countries by operators using Abrams, and therefore they still cannot say for sure how much and when they will be able to dig, or all the same, they will have to expose the Poles.

[Fangaro]

It's not just sending a tank. The tank itself is not full combat capability, you must send the whole package. This includes ammunition, vehicles to maintain it, fuel, you must be trained in the operation of the system so that it can be maintained in combat

Explain, please, to an urgent serviceman for a long time, why is "fuel" for included in the list of necessary?
The tanks that were in service with the US Army were refueled with a special mixture? Is there no petrol or diesel? What do the Abrams need if the "fuel" needs to be supplied along with the tanks?

[Vasyan1971]

Quote from Fangaro

What do the Abrams need if the "fuel" needs to be supplied along with the tanks?

The composition includes special authentic and endemic molecules of freedom and democracy. Need to understand!

[solar]

Abrams has a multi-fuel gas turbine engine AVCO Lycoming AGT-1500.

can run on DF-1, DF-2 diesel and JP-4, JP-5 aviation fuel, kerosene and gasoline, as well as heavier marine fuels.

It's hard to understand what it's about.
Probably, we are talking about lubricants and oils, they may be special and require delivery.
Or some types of fuel provide longer life and better engine performance.

[Ezekiel 25-17]

They have elections next year: they want to guess for them.

[Vasyan1971]

We don't want the Russians to know in advance when we will deliver Abrams tanks to Ukraine, when our equipment will arrive.

Hospice! They don't want to! Yes, Zelensky himself will blather everything on Twitter in 5 minutes.