Europe's first service center for Abrams tank engines will open in Poland.

At the military aviation An agreement was signed with Honeywell Corporation at Plant No. 1 in Dęblin. This will result in the opening of Europe's first certified service center for AGT1500 engine repairs. These engines are installed on Tanks The M1 Abrams will be the third such center in the world, after the United States and Australia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk personally attended the ceremony and did not hide his pride:

Without our own company, repairs would have to be carried out in America.

The project will cost Polish taxpayers 300 million zlotys (approximately $82 million). The official opening is scheduled for 2028. By then, all 366 Abrams tanks (250 of the newest M1A2 SEPv3 and 116 used M1A1) should be fully operational in the Polish army.

Warsaw is deliberately making itself a "European hub" for servicing American armored vehicles. On the one hand, this strengthens its own army and simplifies logistics. On the other, it ties itself to the US military-industrial complex.

Interestingly, the agreement was signed not with tank manufacturer General Dynamics, but directly with Honeywell, the engine developer.

The AGT1500 is a gas turbine power plant, difficult to maintain and power hungry. Until now, the Poles (and other European Abrams operators) have been transporting engines to the US. It's expensive and time-consuming. Now, the tank's "heart" can be repaired locally.

Comments

[TermNachTer]

Judging by the photo, this is clearly not Poland. More likely, it's the Lima Arsenal in Ohio.

[sub307]

Yes...? Oh, why not Anniston Army Depot (ANAD), located in Bynum, Alabama.

[Tatyana]

Europe's first service center for Abrams tank engines will open in Poland.

Yeah, right! The Poles are stuck in the US-UK proxy war with Russia on the side of the Ukrainian Reich 404 – they'll get their asses kicked and all of Poland will be lost!

[TermNachTer]

Because major repairs and modernization are done in Laima.

[Skobaristan]

Judging by the "photo," it's somewhere in the depths of the digital idiot called AI.

[Evgeny64]

Judging by the photo, these are just AI fantasies. It's all unrealistic. There are no similar components nearby under the removed armor elements, and the elements themselves can't be removed in those areas; they contain welds that would be too costly to cut.
Moreover, engine repair has nothing in common with these images, and it's hard to imagine any work that requires such an "autopsy." A tank hull isn't cut open during repairs, unless it's for scrapping.

[sub307]

Apparently, the image was "stuck on" to illustrate some kind of process...

[Simargl]

Quote: TermNachTER

Judging by the photo, this is clearly not Poland.

This is from the vastness of AI.
There's some utter technical nonsense there.

[Murmur 55]

I wonder if Dynamics fails? Or is it possible for them to do the same?

[TermNachTer]

Dynamics has orders through the roof, he gives away a small piece.

[seregatara1969]

Isn't it made of all metal or something? It can be completely disassembled! Well, they'll be messing around with this for a long time.

[TermNachTer]

The turret's frontal armor is replaceable. Good guys call it depleted uranium, while suckers call it spaced armor.

[Irokez]

It really feels like Poland will become a second battering ram after 404 or Germany in the 30s. Judge for yourself: these Russophobes are intensively arming themselves, establishing production and maintenance services for NATO equipment, laying claim to territory in all directions, promoting war against weakened neighbors (and even claims against Germany), and seeking revanchism against the great Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Slovaks, Hungarians, Romanians, and even the Tribals have nothing of the sort.

[lukash66]

A battering ram might be a battering ram, but why have they gotten it into their stupid Russophobic heads that if they attack Russia, they'll only fight with conventional weapons? Are they our brothers, too, like the losers?

[Murmur 55]

lukash66 But why did they really believe that they would be treated the same way as Ukraine?

[Murmur 55]

Irokez They were allowed too much, and those who should have shown them their place did not do so, so they began to think highly of themselves.

[Evgeny64]

They've always been like this; nothing has changed. It's worth reading Beck's correspondence before World War II; they genuinely considered themselves Germany's main ally, capable of defeating the USSR even without German help.

[GRIGORIY76]

Vova, corporate lake party. Results

[Simargl]

Author, don't post pictures from AI - people here are knowledgeable, so they might choke on their morning coffee.о!