The United States approved a shipment of the first batch of M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, U.S. Army Acquisition Chief, Doug Bush announced on Aug. 7.
The first batch of M1 Abrams main battle tanks, which the United States is transferring to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has been approved for shipment, expected to arrive in Ukraine in early fall, U.S. Army Acquisition Chief, Doug Bush announced on Aug. 7.
those are the ones that we and the coalition are combating and obviously we welcome contributions to that. and again, if the russians change their approach to one that is that doesn t have the contradictions that this one does, that would be a basis actually a welcome basis of cooperation because it s very easy to understand why the russians are concerned about isil. they have experience with islamist extremism also, satd and bitter experience. i can well understand. on the other hand, i think that this kind of action is only going to exacerbate that tendency for them to find themselves in the bull s eye. secretary, back when you were acquisition chief, you had predicted there would be a lot more mergers and acquisitions