Doing so requires highly trained specialists and reliable logistical support.Īdditionally, with a 1,500-horsepower engine - approaching three times the size of a Bradley’s - an Abrams tank burns through fuel at a very high rate, further complicating logistics.

One reason for that reluctance has been the difficulty of maintaining extremely complex systems like the U.S. and its allies to send tanks to Ukraine, but has been met with reluctance. Zelenskyy has for months been urging the U.S. Russia's single and only advantage is the size of its military.”įILE - An M1 Abrams crosses a bridge in Hell, Norway, Oct. And, as we've seen throughout the war, Ukraine is the better military. He added, “As we've seen this go on, there's been more and more of a commitment to providing aid that can actually help them win. That initial aid was eventually supplemented by longer-range artillery, drones and other equipment that has allowed Ukraine to dislodge Russian troops from much of the land that was occupied at the start of the war. Javelin anti-tank weapons and Stinger surface-to-air missiles, he said, were “just things to inflict harm on Russia, but not anything that was going to actually win the war.” gave Ukraine a chance, and so the aid that was given to them was just really small things that could get there quickly,” he said. “Before the war started, no one in the U.S. and its allies appear to be thinking about the conflict in Ukraine and the capability of the Ukrainian military. He said that the decision to provide the Bradley to Ukraine was part of a significant evolution in the way the U.S. 'It's a big deal - it's still arguably the best infantry fighting vehicle in the world - but no single weapon system is going to win or lose the war for Ukraine,” said Collins, who also served as a U.S. Military Academy’s Modern War Institute, told VOA that while it wouldn't by itself tip the balance of the war in Ukraine’s favor, the Bradley could help Ukraine significantly. Army Colonel Liam Collins, the founding director of the U.S.

troops patrol in the Syrian town of al-Jawadiyah in the northeastern Hasakeh province, Dec. soldier atop a Bradley Fighting Vehicle as U.S.

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