The corporate media is admitting that these M1 Abrams tanks that Brandon promised the Ukraine might be a bad fit for them. The Financial Times ran a piece describing all of the logistical and maintenance issues they’d encounter with them.
RT:
The M1 Abrams tanks that Washington recently promised to Ukraine might end up being a liability rather than a boost to Kiev’s war effort, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Such a view is explained by the armor’s overcomplicated logistics and maintenance needs.
The 70-tonne tank has a gas turbine engine, which allows it greater acceleration than a diesel engine but requires meticulous maintenance and consumes larger amounts of fuel, the FT explained.
The paper cited former US Army platoon commander John Nagl, who said his soldiers “spent a whole lot of time literally banging our air filters” during the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq amid “big concerns” about the tank engine “ingesting sand and not working.”
Maintaining the combat readiness of the Abrams tanks would require “completely different types of machinery” relative to other Western-designed tanks promised to Kiev, as well as crews trained for special gadgets, the FT highlighted. The mechanics crews for the tanks would also take longer to train, the paper reported.
The tanks will need a steady supply of spare parts and have their “500-gallon tank refilled every day” with jet fuel given that it cannot run on diesel, it added.
These are complicated pieces of equipment and they require crews with experience to maintain and operate. The fact that they don’t run on diesel fuel complicates things further. By the time the Ukrainians get caught up to speed on the equipment, the Russians will have gained even more ground and could be marching towards Kiev.
This is why I have said that sending these tanks over there is a waste of time. It is not going to change the outcome of anything. Even if all the logistical and maintenance concerns could be dealt with, the 30 or so they are sending over there is not going to make a bit of difference.
As Russia continues making gains in the Ukraine, the corporate Jew media is going to slowly phase out their coverage. They already started this process with their coverage of the China balloon hoax.
