(Jan 21, 2023)

„I just don‘t think we‘re there yet,“ Colin Kahl, undersecretary for defense policy, said this week, „The Abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment,“ he argued. „It‘s expensive. It‘s hard to train on. It has a jet engine.“

Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said that given the cost to maintain the Abrams, it „just doesn‘t make sense to provide that to the Ukrainians at this moment,“ arguing that the British Challenger tanks and German Leopard tanks were better alternatives.