It would
not imply that at all. It simply would
by-pass the contractors process as I've already posted that in effect said if the tanks aren't available from Army stocks/depots that the process would much more involve the contractors which would delay the process to up to a year or more.
OLD NEWS HERE as already posted. Also Ref. 3 below covers this.
DU Armor just like any other layered Armor application it is
simply a "
Bolt On/Bolt Off" process. The difficulty will be in the handing of the
DU Armor application which will make the process a little longer for that number of tanks I'm thinking something around
3-4 months.
For every export tank I've built to this point with more to come when I don't get
distracted by suppositional interpretations of sources, I have for the following
seen countless similar verbiage for
EVERY TANK I've looked at thus far in the export tank process going back to last year.
LEOPARD (Pick one of current service as same for others listed.)/ABRAMS/K2/TYPE 10/CHALLENGER 2/LeClerc/MERKAVA/ARJUN and that's just the "
Good Guys". So here we go "
CLASSIFIED, OF UNKNOWN ORGIN, SECRET, RESTRICTED DATA, UNPUBLISHED, NO INFORMATION AVAILIABLE. "
I should hope for the
UMPTEENTH TIME the point has been made.
But if not...
https://time.com/6250099/abrams-tanks-ukraine-biden/
https://news.yahoo.com/us-send-ukrai...200133242.html
(Ukrainian Source.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...tanks-00079648
https://www.manufacturing.net/techno...in-ukraine-war
(This is from our TANK FACTORY EVERYTHING I TALKED ABOUT IS RIGHT HERE.)
https://www.newsweek.com/abrams-leop...-first-1776927
(PRILIMINARY TIMELINE.)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/europ...-ml/index.html
(ABRAMS COULD BE MORE THAN A YEAR SAME AS I've ALREADY POSTED PREVIOUSLY.)
At this point I truly don't know what more I can do.
However as
not everyone uses DU Armor, I
fully support that if the Ukraine gets the
LEOPARD A15 WE give them the
best version of it from the OOB same for the
LEOPARD 2A4/2A5. We did this with the
GEPARD.
But for the rest we build them. So currently I have built the Export versions of the
K2/LEOPARD 2A7/2A7V Hybrid, LeClerc, (We) ABRAMS M1A2C last year AND already addressed M1A1/T-55S already submitted and
almost finished the CHALLENGER 2. Also finished is a
NEW tank the K1A2.
THAT'S WHAT'S TO COME WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DISTACTIONS.
Time is getting short I just wish the posts would end or else Andy and Don and some others will never get our work done so all the things that are required to be finished before the Patch Release can be accomplished, we've been there before, I'm thinking
June at the rate the information is coming.
That's just me.
Regards,
Pat
