Just came across
this a few minutes ago, I'll call this the "
Don't fall in!?!" article. I think most will catch my meaning
as it relates to the information I passed along to Don yesterday in the
APC Thread for the timeline posts. Anyway...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...e65a8f60&ei=42
The next has no game impact however it most certainly has
potential real life consequences.
We have decided at the end of last week or earlier to not allow
Australia to send their
M1A1 Abrams to the
Ukraine one of the reasons is stating we don't think they want them however, Ukraine did address the issue that they do want them on the web. Besides they figured out how to better protect the "
Top" (Another issue that was brought up by us.) a few months back and we haven't seen anything in a while about drones taking them out.
I guess they managed the situation
quite well and
without our help. They must've been paying attention to what the
Israelis have been doing for decades, making our equipment better then when they got them to include more recently their
F-35I.
Before I post this I'm sticking to my
START for these tanks as I recently posted they are still training and qualifying on these tanks. Further the
only ref that matters is the Australian "
REAL" Army newspaper I subscribe to.
Para 6 of the following mentions the delay in shipping.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/news...-tank-squadron
https://kyivindependent.com/transfer...media-reports/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...k-in-australia
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/ar...abrams-ukraine
It's a wonder how these things come along to support a point I made in a post so for a further example here's the following...
https://www.armyrecognition.com/focu...ted-smart-fuse
Regards,
Pat
EDIT: Alright was heading to bed when I realized I forgot the following. This is the reason why the
K2 PIP was "
killed" 2-3 years ago. First the
K2 had many of the systems incorporated into the tank when the decision was made to improve the
K2 and be able to build a larger tank force quicker which also included modernizing the K1 to the
K1A2.
This also lead to the
K3 planning which I started posting on about a year ago at least. When I saw this article there was another obvious reason to get it posted, which Don will most certainly pick up on. Read
Para 2 very slowing. and the rest of the article will certainly show this tank has a long way to go.
VLS on a tank MAYBE-WOW!
https://www.armyrecognition.com/news...3-stealth-tank
(Now corrected in here as well-thanks Don. Cut the end "k" when made bold early this morning.)