In 8 hrs. we're on the road it's been four years since we've been to Spring Training
w/COVID/LIMITED SEATING and last year the
STRIKE now this year we get back into balance and all is right with the Universe again.
Normalcy is a wonderful thing even something as subtle as this that we've been doing now for over 25yrs. now. We all need this in our lives, and
it is good.
But before this I leave with this article that builds upon my last post and provides a reasonable timeline on tanks that will
probably not be around for both countries
Spring Offensive.
LEOPARD 2A4 will be the first to see combat as it stands now, and some of the tanks are in Ukraine now with the goal filling out a full battalion of them and getting them trained up on combined ops as is occurring with the
T-55S battalion that's been at it since last
Nov/Dec which is due to conclude shortly and it being sent to the NE of Ukraine in March.
This is also seeming to indicate the
LEOPARD 2A5 has for now dropped out of the conversation.
LEOPARD 2A6 Germany isn't ready to discuss any timeline for them at this time.
LEOPARD 1A5 well that's going to take a while as well as most haven't had their engines turned over in more than a decade. The German ones however are in better shape but there's another
major issue as well more
recently being reported so, "
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" there better be a whole lot preying going on as there's not much 105mm ammo to go around for those tanks.
Poland is sending
60 PT-91 TWANDY (2 battalions -2.) tanks which should be in Ukrainian hands within the
first 2 weeks of March.
MOD indicating
CHALLENGER 2 is
several months out before they reach the Ukraine.
Since I'm a
little tired of feeling like the "
bad guy" especially about the next tank I'll just leave the quote from the article...
"As for the
31 Abrams tanks promised by the U.S.,
they might not arrive in Ukraine this year at all."
"
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told reporters
Thursday (23 Feb.) that the delivery timelines
could push into well into 2024 at the earliest."
For all the reasons
Ref. 3 in my last post discussed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...4ec2337eed56bb
At best it's a mixed bag. Those
100's Russian captured tanks and the estimated
1/2+ of the tanks the Ukraine have left will be the ones that'll "
hold the line" or start the next Ukrainian Offensive.
We might, though I asked earlier for "
release" of the
T-72B3 & T-72B3M for buy purposes to
maybe reconsider some of those other
Russian capture tanks of models the
Ukraine doesn't have and "
release" as well such as the
T-80BV/T-80BVM
for buy purposes. They as I posted already field 1 full battalion of the
T-80BVM from back in
Mar/Apr 2022 with I believe was the
32nd MECH. Battalion (Which were in a couple of pictures sent for those units in my last submission.) .
I need to hit the rack before my sleep time = my drive time (
NOT GOOD!!)
It's
Peanuts and Cracker Jacks only for the
next 5 day's CINCLANTHOME, BASEBALL and NOT BEING AT WORK FOR YOU FANS...
"IS THIS HEAVEN? NO, IT'S IOWA.", OK
FLORIDA for US! 
Regards,
Pat
