For the first time, light tank western manufacture will be used in Ukraine.
France announced, on January 4, 2023, the sending of armored vehicles AMX-10 RC (less than 20 tonnes) to the Ukrainian army.
According to the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, they should be delivered by mid-March.
Even if this type of equipment is similar to tightening armored vehicles, without much firepower and therefore without being able to really upset the face of the war, this announcement strongly revived the debate, especially in Germany, on the delivery of tanks heavy in kyiv.
So far Berlin has always been reluctant to invoking the risk of climbing.
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“France already gives us light tanks. It is very good. But we still want to get 250 to 350 heavy tanks
, "Mykhaïlo Podoliak, advisor to the Ukrainian presidency, promised that these systems will not be used to attack Russian territory.
What are these very sophisticated tanks capable, on the ground, to switch the course of war and what are the countries able to provide them?
Will Westerners take the plunge?
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