![]() ![]() Developed during the Cold War, battle-tested in IraqĪbrams tanks are powerful, fast and heavily armored. A complicating issue with sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine, officials and experts say, is the probability that one will fall into Russian hands on the battlefield. The Pentagon reserves its highest-end capabilities for U.S. ![]() government sends stripped-down versions of its tanks to foreign governments. "It may or may not present opportunities for Russia to do testing on it, and to look for vulnerabilities," said Colin Smith, an expert on the Russian military at the RAND Corp., a non-partisan think tank.Īs is the case with other weapons, the U.S. It is a necessary precaution in case the Russians capture one of the vehicles and exploit them for intelligence, U.S. That is because the tanks are being modified to remove sensitive technology that could fall into the hands of Russian forces. Abrams tanks won't be part of the initial spring assault. WASHINGTON - Earlier this year, the Biden administration relented after months of pleas from Ukraine and agreed to send the country its most lethal armored vehicles: the Abrams tanks.But with Ukraine gearing up for an expected spring counteroffensive in its war with Russia, these powerful tanks are months away from reaching the frontlines of the battlefield. ![]()
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