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hello and thanks for joining us. i m abby phillip here in washington. now, president biden makes it official. just moments ago, the u.s. is sending abrams tanks to ukraine. that announcement comes just hours after germany revealed that it will send its own leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. germany had been reluctant to do that but ultimately they bent to weeks of intense pressure from western allies. cnn s phil mattingly is over at the white house for us. but let s begin first with our own jim sciutto. jim, can you walk us through what we are talking about here? what are these tanks, and where are they coming from as it relates to what s going into ukraine? reporter: abby, this is a significant move and let s begin with what the capabilities are. this is a german leopard tank then you have the u.s. sending abrams as well. first thing to say about this, highly capable, it s an offensive weapon, not a defensive weapon and the ukrainians hope here, their aim is to use this as a weap
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The U.S. Army announced that, of five teams tapped to submit proposals to replace the 40-year-old Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, two have made the cut.
destroying them and this is another point to be made here. the u.s. view, the view of many u.s. officials and commanders is that ukraine is not great given the numbers at a full-on tank war world war ii style. they ve had success in smaller more mobile more agile units, a lot of those russian tanks went down early in the war, soldiers on foot with shoulder-fired missiles. the bradley fighting vehicle which the u.s. is also sending in is very fast, it s highly mobile, more mobile than tanks, requires less support than tanks and it also has an anti-tank capability tone as a t.o.w. missile on the other side of the turret on this one so there are a lot of folks on the u.s. side who say we understand you want tanks, but we ve seen you have better success with these kinds of vehicles, smaller more mobile units. yeah, that s such an interesting point, jim. it brings us to the next part of this and we ll go to phil with this over at the white house. phil, just a little while ago