Germany could send say 150 Leopard 1A5's if they have them if they don't want to A2's armour is armour Germany does not have 150 Leo 1A5, Rheinmetall as a company has some 80 to 100 in its storage. But Leo 1 could not replace Leo 2. Its armour its to thin, its gun, while it could penetrate tanks li...

F-35 Tranche 2 confirmed, 74 planes till 2033 in three frontline squadrons. 809 NAS expected to stand up this year. Meteor and SPEAR 3 on F-35 expected by 2028, OUT date moved from 2049 to 2069.

But 180-190 just not enough, nevermind increasing numbers deployed,just having enough in the wings when as sure as eggs there would be a high attention rate , depths in numbers of tanks in reserve and trained troops in reserve and spares and ammunition to last more than a week would be the order of...

Looking like more ch3 upgraded coming then than the 148 , according to Ben Wallace today in parliament,we don't actually have enough that can be upgraded that we actually need tbh I think, probably need about 327 upgraded in my opinion,not just front line but at attritional rate would need more upg...

Surprised we haven't donated warriors to them yet tbh if we supposed to be getting rid of them Because majority is still in use in the British Army. Currently 7 units is equipped with Warrior, 4 infantry battalions and 3 cavalry regiments. First Boxer will be delivered in 2023 and first infantry ba...

Certainly, the M1X is looking very interesting, if Uncle Sam is going to crank out 3,000, then we should just buy 148 off the shelf, diverted from US Army multi year buys, in exactly the same way we did with our excellent AH64E buy. Keep in mind Abrams X is not a tank proposal for Abrams replacemen...

UK is sending 30 AS-90 SPH to Ukraine together with CR2.

Well it’s what they’ve doing for most of the past 20 years as availability has been shocking. Hence why you want to be in a larger group for spares holding and support, why ukrain really want leopards and Abrams access to large amount of spares! Unless you’re planning on retaking ground then it has...

Well if the other options are so difficult then just gap it all together send the lot to Ukraine and have done. They’ll do more damage to Russia than us holding on to them wasting money on them. Because it will be what a decade from now until we field a warfighting challenger 3 brigade. Yes, the Br...

Abrams are still being built in Ohio well according to this anyway https://www.defensenews.com/land/2022/05/18/army-acquisition-chief-would-welcome-tank-ramp-up-if-congress-funds-it/ They are rebuilding old tanks to new standard, not building new ones. With a v4 and an x proposal to progress beyond...

There is two very clear industrial and modernisation directions that could be followed either the leopard user community or the Abrams one. We are taking short term, decisions rather than long term ones. So long term solution would be ordering Abrams which is not longer in production and that US is...

One thing I would like to know is that could all spare parts for CR3 be provided with new production or would they be dependent in any way on parts scrapped from retired CR2. Because if they do, then providing any larger number to Ukraine while keeping both their fleet and fleet of CR3 operational c...

How many ch2 do we still actually have ,in storage,active , reserve etc ? Thought there's about 400 with 227 active, could be wrong, someone will tell me I'm sure hopefully,👍 There were 386, with 227 in active service. I don't think there is an official statement about those that were retired, I sa...

I cant read the express article but does it give any reasons why US and Germany wont sell us the required numbers? Seem strange they wouldn't sell us the units. No it does not. It only mentioned that UK had talks with countries I listed in previous post and that so far, were only able to obtain 7 a...

There are plenty in storage in the US and other nations that have never been upgraded from M270 standard to A1. Many will want to go to HIMARS, particularly rather than paying the cost of upgrade from plain M270 to A2 and the increased running costs of M270. HIMARS is not cheap. Lithuania will pay ...

Seems like no one is keen to part with their M270, even tho majority is not in actual service but in storage

The way I see it is all current NATO MBT's are coming to the end of there development time and new ones will be needed what we need to decide who we get into bed with on the next gen tank program I agree. It is pointless to waste money on tanks like Abrams when even US is already considering its re...

In future the army then has GD looking after its heavy brigades with Abrams and Ajax and Bae the medium with boxer. So you want to replace CR2/CR3 by Abrams? Instead of upgrading current UK fleet, you want to buy upgraded current US tank as there is no more new Abrams? Why? What are you getting? Th...

No contact broken push all challengers thru bae to equip them for deployment to Ukraine granted won’t be the same as the current upgrade but times a different. Yea, right ... because those tanks sent to Ukraine will have Thales sights, and all other stuff that RBLS contracted other companies to pro...

Well there’s an update to the review based on Ukraine underway so perfect time to agree a deal. And money is not an issue I guess. UK has money to pay penalties for broken contract and to pay almost a double price for the new fleet of tanks and support vehicles. And how many would they buy? Same 14...

... Exactor Why do you think LBCT will get Exactor? They are currently operated by 26th Regiment RA, the same one that is currently operating all M270s in the British Army. But its future is not clear. some statement/article it is suggested that it will be replaced by new guided munition for MLRS, ...

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/04/05/poland-signs-475-billion-abrams-tank-deal-as-russias-war-speeds-procurements/ Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak on Tuesday signed a deal worth about $4.75 billion to buy 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 from the United States. Deliveries are to begi...

Give them the lot and start over with a tank that isn’t an orphan. Eg leopard or abrams And how much would that cost including all other vehicles that would require replacing like Titan, Trojan, CRARRV and training vehicles? Australia is paying $3.5 billion just for 75 tanks, 29 assault breacher ve...

If info in this tweet is correct ... https://twitter.com/TheBrit96/status/1611110849833230338 ... than there was significant change in structure of the British armoured regiment, with troops moving from 4 to 3 tanks, squadron from 14 to 11, and regiment from 58 tanks to 46. One good thing is that no...

If British are getting Boxer with Nemo that would be a great news. About a month ago there was this tweet https://twitter.com/JakOSpades/status/1600142958757613571 If light forces is moving to 120mm mortars, than mechanised battalions should probably do the same. Nemo should be a good choice for the...