I'm going to skip ahead a bit because of the subject matter of one of the refs below. Quite frankly I'm surprised somewhat that nobody hasn't already "
jumped" on this story and it's a good thing because I'd be forced to take "
the wind out of your sails" which is never fun for me.
I will be focused on
ABRAMS on this post. First off what's being done to them to stave off
obsolesce issues and where we're at, from
5/20...
https://www.armyrecognition.com/weap...ce_issues.html
We're still handing out
ABRAMS M1A2 SEP V2 from
8/19...
https://www.armyrecognition.com/augu...onversion.html
The rest
generally revolve around the
ABRAMS M1A2 SEP 3/M1A2C...
Strike Shield APS anyone, anyone? From
12/19...
https://www.armyrecognition.com/dece...u.s._army.html
Cooling down the the TI from
5/20...
https://www.armyrecognition.com/may_...ams_tanks.html
First Brigade to get
M1A2C SOoooNn from
5/19...
https://www.armyrecognition.com/may_...ered_soon.html
Don't get to excited because a
year later...
https://www.armyrecognition.com/may_...tle_tanks.html
Refer back to
Ref.1 if you have any questions first please on the last item.
A little history. While tracking the
ABRAMS SEP V2 for submission, I had to wait for sometime because the
USA equipped around 8 Brigades before that tank reached
FOC. That's not to say the
M1A2C won't be fast tracked (Though the record already shows it hasn't.) and brought to
FOC sooner. However I'm feeling much more
comfortable about the revised
START Date I submitted for the last Patch based on these Refs as submitted.
The following are for
GP and of minor (
Or more?) interest...
The longest running and comprehensive Ref on
ABRAMS (Among many others.)
https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com...updated-02834/
Well the USA buys foreign, specifically from the
UKRAINE again, in 2003 we bought over a year
4 T-80UD tanks. So in
3/18 were getting ready to buy a
OPLOT-M. If you read the article carefully, you'll understand the future value to the
UKRAINE concerning
potential advances in their armor development.
https://world-defense.com/threads/us...tle-tank.5352/
This in no way unusual I've personally seen what I swore was a
MERKAVA being transported up
I-26 West about 45 minutes East of Columbia, S.C. about 4-5yrs ago.
And don't think the Russians didn't take an interest in the "
diluted" IRAQI M1A1 tanks we sold them.
And so it goes round and round again.
Regards,
Pat
