#Italy negotiates the purchase of #German #Leopard #2A7 - #2A8 #MBTs #tanks @MagazineCapital @Le_Figaro @TF1Info @France2tv @France3tv @lesoir @lecho @lalibrebe @RTBFinfo @rtlinfo @vrtnws @lemondefr @LCI @franceculture @lobs @France24_en https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_june_2023_global_security_army_industry/italy_negotiates_the_purchase_of_german_leopard_2a7_-_2a8_mbts_tanks.html

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/ArmyRecognition/status/1670452791137935362

#Norwegianarmy to get 54 redesignated #Leopard2A8 NOR #MBTs
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_june_2023_global_security_army_industry/norwegian_army_to_get_54_redesignated_leopard_2a8_nor_mbts.html

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/ArmyRecognition/status/1668596047776559105

#List of the 808 #tanks #MBTs that #Ukraine will receive from #NATO #allies with a part already delivered @Le_Figaro @TF1Info @France2tv @France3tv @lesoir @lecho @lalibrebe @RTBFinfo @rtlinfo @vrtnws @lemondefr @LCI @franceculture @lobs @France24_en
https://www.armyrecognition.com/defense_news_april_2023_global_security_army_industry/list_of_the_808_tanks_that_ukraine_will_receive_from_nato_allies_with_a_part_already_delivered.html

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/ArmyRecognition/status/1651897813473665024

We/Ukraine DARE NOT lose those tanks in a land battle (the sort of battle that Field Marshall Boris von Incontinentia Johnson declared dépasse to Tobias Ellwood on the defence committee). We had better not do that. Worse: Britain had better not lose its Challenger 2s. #Ukraine #Tanks #MBTS. #Russia #GeorgeEustace (blanket stacker)

If 🇺🇦 suffer land reversals they’ll seek for more conventional #warfighting kit for a land war. That’ll involve providing for #airsuperiority, AS. The West has ALREADY wilted. This would mean that the West’s MBTs due to arrive in Spring, given (mutually) ideal terrain, gain offensive/retake near immediately. But without AS the tank crews will be hard pushed. Inevitably, the deal is now about saving the West’s #MBTs. A land battle defeat would be UNTHINKABLE. Rethink #F16s!

true about CEE countries transferring tanks to Ukraine in the early months of war, but those were not modern western MBTs...

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

Totally understandable.
Don’t forget that #Czechia & #Poland provided #MBTs in March & April 2022

- Now we MUST LEARN from this & quickly give #Ukraine everything it needs to win our common fight as fast as possible & at the lowest human cost.
History punishes those who delay. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1618147188462481409

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1618147188462481409

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

Today’s the day. Time for Tanks.

Following #UK, #Poland & #Finland’s lead, of course #Germany & all European partners should join them in sending #MBTs.
The #US has sent so much
- & done so much to lead - but if it now needs to #FreetheAbrams to #FreeTheLeopards, it should. 1/4

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1616332259577012226

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

Today’s the day. Time for Tanks.

Following #UK, #Poland & #Finland’s lead, of course #Germany & all European partners should join them in sending #MBTs.
The #US has sent so much
- & done so much to lead - but if it now needs to #FreetheAbrams to #FreeTheLeopards, it should. 1/4

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1616332259577012226

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

Today’s the day. Time for Tanks.

Following #UK, #Poland & #Finland’s lead, of course #Germany & all European partners should join them in sending #MBTs.
The #US has sent so much
- & done so much to lead - but if it now needs to #FreetheAbrams to #FreeTheLeopards, it should. 1/4

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1616332259577012226

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

A best-of 🧵 of #SPD excuses
- in 🇩🇪 (but do translate it)

“#Germany lost a lot of time due to a smorgasbord of reasons and excuses for not being able to deliver #MBTs . 🇺🇦 paid for it with human lives. This has to end now.”
Must read from My brilliant colleague @JulianStoeckle@twitter.com https://twitter.com/julianstoeckle/status/1615969124034789376

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1615974061976489984

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

With the great news that #Poland will supply a company of #Leopard2 Main Battle Tanks & the #UK set to provide #Challenger2 #MBTs, the spotlight is now trained firmly on Berlin. Will #Germany join the coalition to give #Ukraine the tanks -#Kampfpanzer!- it needs?🧵1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1613234175930146816

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

This is why #Ukraine needs #Tanks now - the #MBTs that they need to kick #Russia out faster & at lower human cost - to stop this senseless slaughter & destruction.
- there is no time to dither or play dumb political games.
#FreeTheLeopards NOW! https://twitter.com/euan_macdonald/status/1614307929913425922

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1614334170796523520

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

This is why #Ukraine needs #Tanks now - the #MBTs that they need to kick #Russia out faster & at lower human cost - to stop this senseless slaughter & destruction.
- there is no time to dither or play dumb political games.
#FreeTheLeopards NOW! https://twitter.com/euan_macdonald/status/1614307929913425922

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1614334170796523520

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

With the great news that #Poland will supply a company of #Leopard2 Main Battle Tanks & the #UK set to provide #Challenger2 #MBTs, the spotlight is now trained firmly on Berlin. Will #Germany join the coalition to give #Ukraine the tanks -#Kampfpanzer!- it needs?🧵1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1613234175930146816

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

With the great news that #Poland will supply a company of #Leopard2 Main Battle Tanks & the #UK set to provide #Challenger2 #MBTs, the spotlight is now trained firmly on Berlin. Will #Germany join the coalition to give #Ukraine the tanks -#Kampfpanzer!- it needs?🧵1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1613234175930146816

I have to say I didn’t expect the first announcements to come so soon!
- but great that they did!
What an amazing, historic day!
#SlavaUkraini

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

🔥THE RACE IS ON 🔥

With #Russia eyeing a spring offensive & mass mobilisation, #Ukraine needs #TANKS - Main Battle Tanks #MBTs - like never before.

To get them to 🇺🇦 by March with some training a decision is needed in the next 10-14 days.
- Thankfully … 1/3

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1612538742979313665

On this #FreeTheLeopards day, read @bctallis@twitter.com's comprehensive overview of German decisionmaking below.

Is it time for #Panzerwende?

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

With the great news that #Poland will supply a company of #Leopard2 Main Battle Tanks & the #UK set to provide #Challenger2 #MBTs, the spotlight is now trained firmly on Berlin. Will #Germany join the coalition to give #Ukraine the tanks -#Kampfpanzer!- it needs?🧵1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1613234175930146816

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

With the great news that #Poland will supply a company of #Leopard2 Main Battle Tanks & the #UK set to provide #Challenger2 #MBTs, the spotlight is now trained firmly on Berlin. Will #Germany join the coalition to give #Ukraine the tanks -#Kampfpanzer!- it needs?🧵1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1613234175930146816

RT @bctallis
Just fantastic news! The first step to getting #Ukraine the #MBTs it needs to drive #Russia out & win the war faster & at lower human cost!
Superb from #Poland! Other #leopard2 countries (Hi #Germany) must now follow suit & #UK & #France should chip in with their own tanks too! https://twitter.com/edrotning/status/1613182769877733382

RT @bctallis@twitter.com

Just fantastic news! The first step to getting #Ukraine the #MBTs it needs to drive #Russia out & win the war faster & at lower human cost!
Superb from #Poland! Other #leopard2 countries (Hi #Germany) must now follow suit & #UK & #France should chip in with their own tanks too! https://twitter.com/edrotning/status/1613182769877733382

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bctallis/status/1613190253187108865