I've sat on this for a few days now, one reason for this is simply on our "game world" these tanks won't really matter based on what's in the game now and what's to come.
But more
importantly what would be the political fallout from these tanks and the country sending them.
The Middle East and Africa has been
generally neutral on the Ukrainian War issue. And none have donated any military equipment until now.
I speck of
Morrocco who (Along with
Tunisa) who have recently just sent the Ukraine 20 modernized T-72B tanks that arrived last week. This commitment actually came about in
April '22.
Russia had hoped that the Middle East would stay neutral concerning the war to protect their own interests there. One of them being
Algeria.
Morrocco and Algerian relations aren't necessarily on the best of terms right now and haven't been for a while. But the other problem is the Middle East has a lot of tanks. And Morrocco has just "
cracked open" the faucet. How just follow the refs.
https://www.military.africa/2023/01/...torn%20country.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ry/ar-AA16EcRK
Now to the "
faucet" it appears
Germany has been working behind the scenes with Jordan. This to take some pressure off I'm sure concerning the
LEOPARD tank issue at their end.
The thing is Jorden doesn't have any
LEOPARDS (Well not yet if this gets done.
) however, they do have
400 Challenger 1 tanks in storage. except for the below I'll leave the rest for to read the ref. someone has to go to work.
"Overall,
Challenger 1 destroyed roughly 300 Iraqi Soviet-made tanks, while the Iraqi forces
failed to take a single tank out of combat. During operation
Desert Storm the Challenger 1 tank
engaged an enemy target at a range of 5,100 m."
Need I say more? Read the ref.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defe...o_ukraine.html
Obviously, this bears watching.
Regards,
Pat
