Good WaPost piece on the challenges of certain weapons supplies to Ukraine
SecDef Austin:
The constant need for maintenance, spare parts and fuel gets “kind of lost on a lot of people. … If you can’t sustain a system in a fight, you might as well not even bother to deploy it.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/23/ukraine-weapons-biden/
On tanks:
A senior US defense official said that supplying even one M1 Abrams tank to Ukraine was out of the question. Used by U.S. forces in Iraq, the massive battle tanks were “hard for us to sustain and maintain. It would be impossible for them"
@dmitri by yet you mean never. Scholz made it clear supplying Leopards is an absolute red line for him. He doesn't have one for Russia but has for Ukraine.
@herid I do. German Leopards are a much better fit, but Germans don't want to supply them yet