Well, I'm going to "
step out" of the Thread box for a moment as this is
part of the of and the lead in the ref below.
Ref. 1
"Just this week,
65 Ukrainian air defenders completed Patriot training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and have now arrived back in Europe."
Ref. 2
"
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) missile defense project director Tom Karako ..."
"Built by Raytheon Missiles & Defense,
each battery includes a
radar, control station, power generators, 5-8 launchers, support vehicles/equipment and requires
about 90 personnel to operate. Considered a theater-scale surface-to-air missile defense system, it is mobile though “not super-mobile because of its footprint,”
Karako says."
It would appear from what I've read that the Ukraine will be
operating 2 Batteries of the PATRIOT System.
This includes the one we're sending and with the combined total from the
EU members who are conducting separate training on theirs in Europe.
Ref. 1
"Meanwhile in
Germany, at the close of this month, more than
4,000 Ukrainian soldiers and two brigades,
one equipped with M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles (ODAS as already identified and addressed.) and
one equipped with Stryker ICVs will have completed combined-arms training and have returned to Ukraine."
"Additional
combined-arms training is currently underway at Grafenwoehr and
Hohenfels training areas in Germany, with
two motorized infantry battalions consisting of 1,200 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.
Operator and maintenance training on donated platforms
is also ongoing, with more than 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers having completed platform training and 40 different programs of instruction on more than 20 systems since April of 2022."
"The
59 Bradley IFVs included in this package, together with the
50 Bradleys previously committed on January 6, and the
90 Stryker APCs will provide Ukraine with
two brigades of armored capability. "
As I
might've already mentioned they are keeping them with the same Brigade.
The
ONLY other question besides when they'll be arriving and put into service is, will they wait for the
ABRAMS or
integrate them in the
Combined Operations Training in country with their Russian/Ukrainian tanks which by the way for
several months now are operating within their own Brigades etc. by
tank type.
It's an
interesting dynamic to ponder but, one I think will happen.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defe...yker_icvs.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericteg...h=1af6786596f8
I figured I'd save
you some the time of reading these (
But feel free to do so.) as there seems to be some "
reading into" an article vice just "
reading it." and "
The World continues to spin round and round".
Based on the
previous post just want to make sure the Ukraine got the Australian M113AS4. Which is the
ONLY one they have.
http://www.military-today.com/apc/m113as4.htm
I'd rather
be in theirs than ours
given the choice.
EDIT: Australia is to build
100 BOXER CRV LANCER for
Germany with deliveries to
START SOMETIME IN 2025.
Current status the Australian
BOXER CRV in it's
STILL IN IOC.
I know this because I get their
OFFFICIAL ARMY MOD "NEWSPAPER" online. Love the
Aussies, they were
very helpful to us and the
game as Don might well remember as well.
Regards,
Pat
