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Australia announced on July 19 that it had delivered the majority of the 49 pledged M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine.
“The Albanese Government continues its steadfast support for Ukraine, with the transfer of the first tranche of Australian-gifted M1A1 Abrams tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Defense Minister Richard Marles said in a statement.
The American-made tanks were sent to Ukraine as a part of the 1.5 billion Australian dollars ($980.4 million) allocated in assistance for the country in response to the special military operation launched by Russia more than three years ago. The rest of the tanks will be delivered in the coming months, according to Marles.
The tanks are of the M1A1 AIM v.1 version, which keeps the same 120 mm L/44 M256 smoothbore gun and the Honeywell AGT1500 multi-fuel turbine engine, but features several upgrades.
These upgrades include a Forward-Looking InfraRed, or FLIR, and Far Target Locate sensors, a tank-infantry phone, communications gear, including FBCB2 and Blue Force Tracking to aid in crew situational awareness, and a thermal sight for the .50 caliber machine gun.
This version is not, however, equipped with the depleted uranium armor, which remains exclusive to the tanks in service with the U.S. military.
A total of 59 M1A1 AIM tanks were sold by the U.S. to Australia. Thus Ukraine could, in theory, receive more than the reported 49 tanks.
Australia announced the delivery of its Abrams tanks just days after a report by The National Interest revealed that the Russian military had effectively wiped out nearly all of the M1A1 SA tanks the U.S. delivered to Ukraine over the past two years.
A separate report by the Military Watch Magazine said that out of the 31 tanks provided, only four remain operational, indicating an attrition rate of 87%.
The Abrams supplies by the U.S., which are nearly identical to the ones just delivered by Australia, posed no real challeng to the Russian military, which took them out one by one using anti-tank guided missiles, guided artilery rounds, loitering munitisons and FPV suicide drones.
Ukrainian troops also complained about several problems with the Abrams, especially when it comes to mobility and maintenance.
The continuous delivery of such heavy weapons is not meant to make a change, as Australia and the rest of Ukraine’s backers likely understand by now that this will not happen. The real purpose of these supplies is just to prolong the conflict with Russia as much as possible.
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“as australia and the rest of ukraine’s backers likely understand by now”
they don’t, obviously.
these kind of wars are meant to last as long as possible for profits, the cia ‘strategy of tension’ to manipulate the population, depopulation and to distract people from domestic problems🤫🙈🤔
it’s not the cia, they’re exactly as the name says just agents for higher powers just an agency and the head actors are usually catholics.
“usually”? the black nobility (all descendants of popes) have been running the show since 1054.
and the popes are often from iranian bloodlines eg trudeaus castro daddy.
don’t be daft. they’re all from venice.
no you don’t know the history. you know basic google easg to find stuff. the iranians created rome from the start.
can’t
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they are the zionist banksters, you know the rokcefeller/rothchild/morgan etc…. f’k me are you that far behind!?
bankers always use other peoples money (opm). rothschild was always known as “the vatican’s banker”.
because the vatican employs them to be their bankers centuries ago
good try but your basic limited informations lacking depth like you
they’re to make the military industrialists rich that’s britain british aerospace engineering bae number 1, british boeing two britain’s raytheon three and the old lockheed martin from england too, all outsourced to pretend to be american.
the us has always been australia’s pimp.
look since 1933 the commonwealth of australia has been an american registered corporation. and most australian companies are owned by american corporations.
what document precisely makes australia “an ramerican egistered corporation”?
google it deadbeat
google is a jew owned entity. the search engine is censored. only a moron would use google for a source of truth.
never trust an anglo slime
more scrap metal for ivan steptoeski, the famous moscow scrap dealer.
you are delusional.
anfdyour votes are fake. i know you fake them. i’ve seen you doing it.
“you dirty old man, you….”
they are australian hybrids now, the armour is replaced with solar cells, and the turbine charges a lipo battery, that drives then the electro motors making it very quiet.
a quiet turbine? roflmao!!!!!
oh, the fear from more abrams, hit the transfer depot with a couple of iskanders, problem solved…
the real point is australias army has never been more short staffed under equipped or useless all of it, and they’re the hardest continent on earth to defend so really that’s a very silly move, mind you they wouldn’t be any use here anyway look at the size, spread 54 little tinny tanks about. useless.
it’s a very silly move but they wouldn’t be of any use there? which is it?
clyde obviously it’s both.
as vladimir vladimirovitch has commented, “they will burn nicely”…..
you use too many fake names but your limited knowledge, like a beginner, always catches you out.
know it all’s get down voted big time around here moron.
not even australia is scared of midget vlad!
heheheh
that’s correct and so this site s votes system is inverted. its very clear. they’re fakes pretending to be pro russia but really england’s actors spreading anti american ideologies. imo
you are mistaken on this one. any country with his britannic majesty as head of state (canada, australia or new zealand) is required to toe the line on foreign policy. since whitehall is subservient to the city-state of london – which is in turn the financial center for the vatican just as the district of columbia has been the military center since 3:30pm eastern time april 12th, 1945, you will find usa, uk, eu and nato in lockstep where russia is concerned.
correct but only on a deep level superficially where they meet on the stage they must obey the king because everything their doing us about legalities and so require lawyers to approve of and all lawyers admitted to the bar must have sworn an oarh of loyalty to the sovereign
but as you point out below the king must obey the city of london – as it has been since the conquest. as far as the norman aristocracy are concerned, their anglo-saxon serfs are just “little englanders” – a term which has been in use for centuries. another little-known fact is that the language of the court of saint james – the royal court – was french until the last century, siince the normans hated to speak that nasty anglo-saxon commoner tongue called “english”.
abd it’s members if the commonwealth which is 54 countries and charles owns canada australia england south africa and new zealand they are his. there’s over 2 billion people in the commonwealth russias got just over 140 million. the commonwealth will obey the king.
the rothschilds are employed by the vatican as their banker. have been for centuries they work for the vatican. they regulate the bank of england in a way, but the city is a city state independent of england as is the vatican independent if italy as is washington independent of america three independent city states.
the windsors require permission from the city to wear them and yes its the catholic crown of edward the confessor that is the symbol of sovereignity. it is catholic and that is roman, and they were never really christians. as madonna whistlblew, i’m not a christian and i’m not a jew…
them being the crown, mssy moderators going to delete the post explaining that becayse it’s being moderated awaiting for approval hahahaha
there’s the proof.
the dirty diggers have just painted a big target on themselves.
you’re stupid it was alraleady pointed out to you that the biggest war games in the world are happening in queensland right now. days ago about a week or more.
and you’ve been told a lot of times that the biggest war games in the history of the world were held in australia in the early 1990s right after gadaffi said if war breaks out them my first target will be western australia.
dosť ma zaráža, prečo sa o nich rusko nepostaralo, keď boli na mori. (preventívne samozrejme) dnes by boli minulosťou a nerobili by vrásky na čele vojakom rf!!! mysleniu zdar a svetu mier!!!
any russian who wants to get rich just open a scrap yard, there is millions of $$$ in scrap.
you uneducated people are so dumb russians have always been so much richer than you english it’s not funny you’ve been totally lied to all of your life al of your life. england was the dirtiest scummiest filthiest city with the most grotesque poverty in its streets of any european country in europe, your buckingham palace was the laughing stock of europe you were the dirtiest pox ridden filth in the whole world. fact.
don’t hold back asshole tell us what you really think, what any of that rant has to do with nato tanks being reduced to scrap i have no idea.
you wouldn’t dipstick
billions more like it. inbred psycho babble bot / trolls really infesting the commentary now. things must be getting out of hand in ratland now.
“the albanese government continues its steadfast support for ukraine”
to be expected from a bunch of peasant idiots who rank at street level within the global mafia…
don’t forget… they’re all descended from criminals.
true p/e a ridiculous plague of idiots allowed to thrive. fake roman garbage celebrate their degeneracy as one of their clans…
everyone is globally no one’s free of sin.
there’s two deceivers showing their arrogant deviancies in denial
english irish criminals not any of the other aussies and they weren’t really all criminals but slavery had been outlawed so england just invented convict labour as an even more economic substitute.
their crime was poverty.
from the minute putin entered ukraine the then prime minister, leader of the other party, rushed onto national tv gleefully rubbing his hands together, exclaiming putin the oligarchs and the duma are war criminals and we will defeat russia. straight away he couldn’t wait to announce the obviously expected event.
course, australia traditionally always has a labor government during war and they’re a cathol8c party, the liberals are church of england, so church or crown are the choices. basically albaneses catholic and will follow the pope who backs ukraine as usual.
church of england, church of rome, both catholic. many make the mistake of assuming the c-of-e is protestant, it is not. check the crucifix; protestant religions use an empty cross signifying the risen christ, both roman and english catholic (c-of-e) use christ nailed to the cross to instill guilt in their congregations (i.e. christ died because we are all sinners).
popes have been trying to destroy orthodoxy (i.e. russia) since 1054 because the patriarch of constantinople refused to hand over the collection proceeds to pope alexander. that’s why russia chose instanbul (constantinople) to negotiate the vatiican’s surrender.
no they’ve wanted russia since it chose greek orthodoxy over catholicism.
basically it all goes back to the republic of rome versus the greek democracy transitioned into godliness for lawfulness. the latin vulgate versus the textus receptus. the red versus the blue. still is. red for blood of commoners blue for royals. very very basically. the blues walk over the red carpet.
i wouldn’t say as far back as the republic, but when the roman empire was established in 73bc the trouble started.
or let russia accept a polish tsar , also good
well tbe romano s were genetically danish basically but hereditary of course alexandra, alice, was german born as queen victoria’s favourite grand daughter princess sunshine. like the windsors are german the japanese family are actually korean. etcetera. nationality isn’t real dna is. and the royals have different blood
types than most actually too which they keep secret as well as almost everything except propaganda.
i think thats italian bs. the vatican never surrendered there were two popes at one time yes and bonapartes stripped them of their temporal powers and the pope was imprisoned more or less but that’s where the king of italy conned mussolini into restoring the popes powers by offering him to the duce. all that bs that preceded todays events which are the closing sequel, the final act. of solidarity for fascism.
i want lucretia borgia for pope
i meant it’s surrender in the current talks. the so-called “collective west” is the vatican in another guise, so when “ukraine” agrees to russia’s terms during the istanbul talks, it will actually be the holy roman empire surrendering to orthodoxy in the city that was orthodoxy’s centre.
catholic is universal that’s what it means universal they aren’t christians rome crucified petty criminals all the time there was always people hanging about on crucifixes it was meant to be an insulting degrading way to kill people slowly painfully hanging up there in your own faecsces and urine and agony so the good romans could laugh that’s the culture.
the church of england was subverted by the cathics from its very inception that’s why henry the v11 reign was such a disaster for him they hated him fir discovering an ancient english law that stated that no one was above the king in england not even the pope. that was how he got to legally excommunicated in effect the pope out of his kingdom. they went ballistic naturally especially when he seized a of their stuff and lands.
australia is a usa colony
i wish you would stfu or actually learn the basics. australia is crown lands owned by king charles legally, but is also corporation registered in america and most if its companies are anerican owned. eclxvepf its banks, the big r all really owned or controlled by the bank of england there’s one bank. using multiple names just like you do.
and america is a corporation.too regusted in biden seat if delaware and in puerto rico you do t have a clue about much at all australia has multiple legal queens and there’s multi crown its extremely complex by design. there the office of the premier in queensland which is one of many of the queens qe2 was another, but there’s more.
and the point is they were anerican tanks really i know about a year ago in the news i read exactly the inventory of australias military the numbers of units, ships planes, subs etc the whole inventory and i doubt they even had 54 tanks then. they were expressing the fact that they were in a total shambles vulnerable almost defenseless. that was the point
these are old worn out tanks that australia retired and was going to have to pay to scrap them, now they gave them to ukraine so they can scrap them for australia!
they were totally unsuited for hot conditions from the start, just another yank hoax. german made leopards proved more ideal for the climate.