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conservative cabinet minister justine greening and ron christie former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. it has been a fractious few days, nato allies openly criticising the decisions in berlin, the german chancellor refusing to send his tanks, unless the united states also had skin in the game. but out of delay and a whole lot of diplomatic wrangling, has come a momentous decision. nearly 100 nato tanks, will be sent in the coming month to the front line and the border with russia a move that was unthinkable months ago. we will provide battle tanks to ukraine, the leopard two. this is the result of intensive consultations with our allies and international partners. i want to stress that it is right that we did not allow anyone to pressure us but that instead we relied on close cooperation on the special issue and we will continue to do so. the americans took some convincing. the abrams while readily available, will take longer to ship, they are more ....
These tanks on the battlefield. the three tanks now committed are some of the most sophisticated in the world. the challenger 2, while designed in the 1990s, is still significantly more advanced than the soviet era tanks the ukrainians are currently using. the us abrams, has a higherfuel consumption, it does run on jet fuel but it can be adapted to run on diesel and petrol. and its target aquisition, the way it speaks to other tanks in the battalion will be hugely important. and then there s the leopard 2 which germany manufacturs. easier to operate. poland and germany are already committed. but it is used by a number of european countries who will add to the numbers already announced. with me now is lieutenant general david leakey colonel commandant of the british royal tank regiment. thank you for being with us. what is the military significance of this on the military significance of this on the battlefield? that ....