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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who thinks this is a good idea has never served in a US Army Armored Corps.

Abrams are [i]incredibly[/i] maintenance intensive systems. And they consume huge amounts of fuel. And presumably all of the current tech within them will have to be removed - everything from the armor, comms, TA and FC equipment. Basically we’ll be sending them functional hulls with operable main guns and little else. And the power unit will be totally unfamiliar to people who come from a knowledge base centered around diesel engines. Turbo shaft engines are totally alien to folks who are used to pistons and fuel injectors.

We can spare the tanks of course, we have over 3,000 M1’s sitting in storage in the California desert. But what we’d be sending them won’t be a game changing weapon system.

I never crewed in an Abrams, I was in Bradley’s. But we operated with Abrams in combined cavalry/armor units pretty often, and it will be interesting to see how 40 year old M1’s do in a European theater. I’ve only seen them in deserts- a place they were not initially designed for. They were actually created to fight of the flat farmlands of Western Europe, and Ukraine is a pretty reasonable facsimile of that terrain. So we’ll finally get to see if our 80’s era tanks can hack it in the theater they were designed for.

Something interesting I noticed - this article just says “tanks”. Nothing else? No bridging gear? No mine clearing? No extraction units? No lowboy haulers? No trucks? No fuelers? Armor doesn’t go to war all by itself. Tanks don’t operate very long without support equipment and support vehicles. And there’s no mention of that. I’d like to believe that’s just sloppy journalism, but nothing would surprise me these days. But if they just sent tanks, that’s a huge oversight. And it’s an indication that the White House isn’t listening to the Pentagon.  [/quote]

Who do you think are making these decisions? It is laughable that you think know one but yourself has thought about logistics. The US military is incredibly good at logistics.

Let’s talk some facts, M1 can run on diesel or any type of fuel. It gets about .5 mpg. The t-84 get about 1 mpg. Yes tanks and aircraft really any military vehicle have low fuel efficiency specially armor’s vehicles. The Ukraine will use the western tanks to spear head an attack with their other tanks used to exploit the gap. They are not going to adopt nato doctrine because they do not have the nato’s capabilities.

[b]The M1 engine is really a modified helicopter engine. The in filed service and maintenance are fairly easy. Major repairs are usually switch outs which the Ukraine have the capability to do. They have been salvaging Russians from the beginning of the war. So the Ukrainians have the equipment to transport and move heavy tanks. There will be private contractors for major repairs at the regimental or higher repair areas[/b].

They are not going to strip the tanks of their system. If they did that they would be useless. You act like the US military logistical planners are a bunch of morons. They are not. They are paying professional with years of experience. [/quote]

The Ukes have never even seen an Abrams power unit. They’re used to soviet-era diesel technology. The transmission and reduction gearbox is another thing they’ve never seen before, too. The training pipeline for techs that maintain turbine engines is about 20 months long. But you go ahead and tell us what you know, lolz!

The unfortunate reality here is that y’all don’t even know enough to know what you don’t know. That’s why is so difficult for you to understand this stuff. And why you think you understand more than you do.

The [i]only[/i] thing you’re correct about is our military being very good at logistics. We are. Logistics are what allow something as complex and maintenance intensive as an M1 to stay in service.

You know what isn’t being included in this shipment of tanks?

The entire logistical tail to keep them working.

Carry on. [/quote]

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