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Antiwar News With Dave DeCamp
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The US Approves Its First Batch of Abrams Tanks for Shipment to Ukraine
The first batch of Abrams tanks that the US is providing Ukraine was authorized for shipment over the weekend and is expected to arrive in early fall. Army acquisition chief Doug Bush said, quote, the last of the set was officially accepted by the US government or the production facility over the weekend. So they will be providing Ukraine with 31 refurbished m1a1 Abrams, which is an older variant of the tank. The Pentagon decided to speed up the plan by sending older tanks.
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