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Most modern abrams tank10/28/2023 ![]() US soldiers do maintenance on an Abrams tank in Germany in August 2017.ģrd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Poland has bought at total of 366 Abrams tanks from the U.S.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Poland’s first 14 Abrams tanks have just arrived to the country. Warsaw has signed multiple arms deals, including with the United States and South Korea, from whom it ordered K2 “Black Panther” tanks and K9 howitzers. Poland, a NATO and EU member and staunch ally of Ukraine, announced in January that it plans to spend four percent of its gross domestic product on defense this year. ![]() “Not every country can have such tanks, Poland is the first country outside the United States that will have Abrams tanks in the most modern version,” Blaszczak added. Last year, Poland bought another 250 Abrams in a more modern M1A2 variant, which are expected to be delivered in late 2024. The shipment is part of a deal worth $1.4 billion for 116 M1A1 Abrams tanks that were previously used by the US Marine Corps. “This year we will have more tanks and they will form a battalion of Abrams tanks,” Blaszczak said, hailing the US-made Abrams as “the best tanks in the world.” “The first tanks are already on Polish soil, it’s an important day for the Polish army,” Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told reporters. The authorities in Warsaw ordered a total of 366 Abrams tanks from the United States, with the first batch comprising 14 tanks that arrived at the port city of Szczecin. Poland on Wednesday received the first shipment of US-made advanced Abrams tanks, its defense minister said, as the country boosts its military capabilities in light of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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