“Another two tank companies will be delivered later in the year,” the minister added.Īs a result of the three deliveries, Poland will have a battalion of Abrams tanks as soon as this year, Blaszczak told the state broadcaster TVP Info on Monday, adding that another battalion would be delivered next year. The first batch, which arrived at Polish Szczecin-Świnoujście port on Tuesday evening, included “14 tanks, that is, one company,” said Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak. Polish crews were trained to use these tanks in 2022 in the Biedrusok municipality, where an Abrams Academy was established in cooperation with the US Army. Poland ordered 116 used M1A1 Abrams that had been withdrawn from the US Marines corpus and repaired. Washington sent Poland the first batch of Abrams tanks set to replace equipment donated for Ukraine, with another two batches expected later this year.
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