17-01-2023, 08:53 PM
(16-01-2023, 08:41 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Fourteen tanks doesn’t sound like a lot?. It
isn’t and 14 Challenger 2 tanks on their own are not going to win a war, but it’s the shift in direction that’s important.
Earlier this month, France, Germany and the United States respectively promised so-called “light tanks” – an unspecified number of French AMX-10 RC, 40 German Marder, and 50 Bradley fighting vehicles.
Just for a start...
Germany in particular had been reluctant to send fighting vehicles, but every time one of the NATO allies pledges a step up in the sort of weapons it...but the timing of the comments is important.
They come ahead of a meeting this week of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, which coordinates arms supplies to Kyiv, at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
So there could be announcements of more weapons.
NATO defense ministers will meet on Jan. 20, at the U.S. Ramstein air base in southwestern Germany to discuss continued weapons aid to Ukraine.
Berlin has said that it will give Germany's final decision on Leopard tank deliveries ahead of the summit.