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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 66%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  WARSAW, Poland - Poland's defense minister on Wednesday signed a deal to buy a second batch of U.S Abrams main battle tanks as Warsaw beefs up its defensive capabilities and strengthens military cooperation with Washington in light of Russia's war in neighboring Ukraine.
  Officials said Poland is the first U.S. ally in Europe to be receiving Abrams tanks.
  Lawton said the U.S-Poland partnership "Has never been more important" and that the tank deal was part of U.S. President Joe Biden's pledge to provide "Our strongest and most reliable military capabilities to Poland on an urgent basis."
  
  
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context: One of the many many ways Putin has fucked Russia, is the entire planet now considers Russian weapons to be shit tier.  Putin not only destroyed his own army, he destroyed his own defense industry.  Poland of course was always going to go NATO direction, but lots of other countries are quietly canceling their Russian weapons orders.  And I'm guessing once Bradleys are on the field in Ukraine they are going to absolutely dominate the T72, and countries are going to see that and cancel Russian tank orders. >
  
  Some are canceling the order, but for those that didn't, Russia isn't delivering because they are diverting these export weapons to the front in Ukraine. >
  
  Seems like Russia Was modernizing tanks for another country and then decided to send those tanks to the Ukrainian front. You know tanks they didn’t actually own and we’re being paid to update. >
  
  Yeah, India is pissed >
  
  Are you sure? They got tons of oil. I think they will do fine. >
  
  Jeez 1200+ top of the line MBTs by 2027 when the K2 and M1SepV3 orders are completed. >
  
  Where does the number 1200 come from? The article mentions 116 for this batch, and 250 for the order last year. Do they already have \~900 tanks in service? >
  
  they ordered somthing like 900+ K2 tanks from South Korea. 
  The first 200 or so are direct shipments from korea (initial deliveries have arrived already), and the rest would be license produced in Poland with technology transfer agreements in place >
  
  Well russia also created a market in europe and the baltics,poland is going to sell tanks like hotcakes. >
  
  Poland looking more and more to be a future powerhouse militarily. They keep buying quite alot the last few years >
  
  Do they get the good armour with them? (Or is that just a UK/US thing?) >
  
  Yes they get all the new features for communication, firepower, and armor.
  They have been getting training on some of the new stuff since at least August 2022. >
  
  Including the uranium plate inserts? Is used Abrams hade depleted uranium for armor core inserts, foreign sales of the Abrams have always used tungsten. >
  
  That sounds incredibly silly as tungsten is about as toxic. Every heavy metal is.