Above the schedule: Abrams tanks arrived in Germany for training of the Armed Forces Soldiers - the media
According to the information owned by the media, the tanks arrived in Germany a little earlier than it has been planned. Currently, they are heading to the Grafenver military base, where training of the Ukrainian military will begin in two to three weeks. The US official, whose media refers to the words, informed that he arrived in the German city of Bremerhafen, 31-8 May, 31 tank M1a1 Abrams. Abrams will be transferred to the Ukrainian military for use in the war zone in early autumn.
Pentagon Lloyd Austin said this at the US Senate hearings. "We are doing our best to accelerate the supply of these tanks, the beginning of autumn is such a forecast," Austin said. In addition, the Pentagon Head noted that the United States has moved several tanks to a training ground for the Ukrainian military to start managing this equipment. Lloyd Austin particularly stressed that the delay in supplying American tanks to Ukraine is related to objective reasons.
According to him, the US military is not only engaged in tanks transferring to Europe and training in the Armed Forces. They also create an infrastructure that will support these tanks. And it takes a little more time. "At the time when training is completed, the tanks will be available for use," the US Secretary of Defense summarized.
Grafenver is a military training center and a military landfill in the territory of German Bavaria, intended for comprehensive individual training of specialists, as well as individual units and units of the US Army, ensuring an effective process of their training and training, as well as for testing new weapons and military equipment. In particular, tanks that are in service with the United States Land Forces.
The total number of personnel and residents of the Center, which is one of the largest military landfills and the largest NATO training center in Western Europe, is about 6 thousand people. We will remind, on May 8 the media reported that the United States was removing from Abrams tanks "sensitive" technologies on the eve of sending to Ukraine. The US government is allegedly sending "cut versions" of its tanks to foreign countries.