The US has transferred 700 combat vehicles to Poland, including Abrams tanks The United States is increasing the grouping of troops in Poland.
700 combat vehicles, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, were delivered to the port of Gdynia. According to the military observer of the newspaper.Ru" by Mikhail Khoderenko, a scenario can be implemented with the transfer of this military equipment to the armed forces of Ukraine.
The port of Gdynia is currently unloading weapons and military equipment for the 1st Infantry Division of the US Army Ground Forces. About 700 vehicles of various types, including M1A2 Abrams tanks, arrived on board the Integrity ship, the Polish newspaper Wyborcza reports.
Recall, the 1st Infantry Division is a tactical unit of the US Army Ground Forces. The division is the oldest of the modern cadre formations of the US Armed Forces. The unofficial name of the 1st pd is "Big Red Unit" (Big Red One). The division's permanent deployment point in the continental United States is Fort Riley, Kansas.
The 2nd Armored Brigade of the 1st pd was stationed in Poland back in September 2017. Since 2018, the transfer of weapons and military equipment of the 1st pd by sea, including armored combat vehicles and main battle tanks, to the Polish port of Gdynia continues. Since that moment, more than 20 transports have already crossed the Atlantic by sea.
The Wyborcza newspaper clarifies that the arrival of such a large amount of American military equipment in Poland is taking place as part of the implementation of the Atlantic Resolve program. This operation began in 2014 and was aimed at strengthening the American military presence in Europe. The "Atlantic resolve" was a kind of response of the collective West to the war in Donbass.
According to Wyborcza, on board the Integrity ship, in addition to Abrams tanks, there are M2 Bradley BMP, M113 armored personnel carriers in several versions, other combat vehicles and trucks. "Within two weeks, the equipment will be transported from the port by rail and road to military bases located in different places in Poland," the Polish edition said. This information is provided by RIA Novosti.
The military-political leadership of Ukraine has repeatedly stated its desire to get at its disposal the main battle tanks of Western production (primarily American M1 Abrams and German Leopard 2 vehicles), infantry fighting vehicles such as Marder and M2 Bradley, multifunctional fighters and long-range anti-aircraft missile systems. So far, no decisions have been made at the political level on the transfer of such weapons to Kiev in the West.
On this occasion, the United States has repeatedly stated that they do not intend to allow the escalation of the armed conflict in Ukraine, and do not want a war with Russia. "For US President Joe Biden, it is necessary to avoid the expansion of the conflict in Ukraine. On the contrary, we want to complete it, but not expand it in any way. We don't want a war with Russia, especially we don't want a Third World War. This is not what we are striving for," - this is how the United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken formulated this idea on December 2 in an interview with France 2 TV channel.
If at the beginning of the conflict in the Pentagon it was considered impractical to supply Kiev with even portable anti-aircraft missile systems FIM-92 Stinger, then today modern NASAMS air defense systems are being given to the Ukrainian army, as they say, with extraordinary ease, and the debate on possible supplies to Ukraine of the MIM-104 Patriot medium-range air defense systems is only gaining strength.
Therefore, it is quite possible that in a month or two the attitude towards the supply of M1 Abrams main battle tanks and M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine will change significantly. And when such decisions are made at the political level, then you will not have to search for this military equipment overseas for a long time. She's already here, not far away, in Poland.
That is, it will be relatively easy to transfer tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to the Ukrainian army and such an event will be carried out, as they say, in a working order.
Probably, such a scenario should not be regarded as completely detached from reality fantasies.
Mikhail Khodarenok
