Recently, according to news from Russia Today, a senior Russian ** said that the Russian army for the first time found the M1 Abrams tank supplied to Ukraine by the United States on the front line in Donbass. The M1 tank was captured by the Russian army, the US military ** fell off the altar, and the combat effectiveness of the Russian army was in full swing.
Igor Kimakovsky, adviser to the Donetsk People's Republic of Russia, said in an interview with TASS that in the northwest of the city of Avdeyevka, which was recently captured by Russian troops, M1 tanks abandoned by Ukrainian troops were found. However, he did not provide details about the number of captured tanks, their combat readiness or how the Ukrainian army deployed them. He also noted that the Ukrainian army is actively using drones to resist near this strategic fortress. At the beginning of last year, Washington supplied Kyiv with 31 M1 Abrams tanks, which are enough to equip an armored battalion.
In late September last year, Ukraine** Zelensky claimed that the first batch of American-made M1 tanks had arrived in Ukraine. And the United States has long said that the project will be completed in mid-October last year. Presumably, the entire batch of 31 M1 tanks has been delivered to Ukraine throughout last year. However, it seems that the Americans have requirements for Kyiv, and after the delivery of this batch of tanks, they did not appear on a large scale on the battlefield, which may be due to a number of reasons.
First of all, the United States learned the lesson of the Germans, and in order to maintain the prestige of the US military, it did not allow the Ukrainian army to use this tank casually. After all, scenes like the explosion of the Leopard 2 tank have been known all over the world, and have had a serious impact on the reputation of Germany. In the future, the export of German **, I am afraid, will be seriously affected, because they are useless on the battlefield. You must know that the United States is a big military trade country and cannot tolerate such a thing, otherwise, how can the United States make a lot of money by relying on **? Unfortunately, however, the United States has also been tricked.
Secondly, this tank is difficult to maintain, and it is not as durable as Soviet and Russian tanks. The M1 tank uses a gas turbine instead of a traditional diesel engine, so its engine needs to be serviced every 12 hours. However, the Ukrainian army has a low level of technology, and such high-tech tanks have not been used, and it is even more impossible to maintain them on the battlefield. Wild boars can't eat chaff, so the Ukrainian army does not like to use these tanks, which reduces the chance of M1 tanks appearing on the battlefield.
Another point is that the U.S. military has guided the Ukrainian side to use this tank, and the U.S. military's tactics are relatively clever, and the Ukrainian army has achieved the requirement of making the M1 tank relatively hidden. So, on the battlefield, it is rare to see the appearance of this tank. This basically shows that on the front line, there are relevant forces of the US military in operation, and the Americans are already participating in this war.
However, the M1 tank fell into the hands of the Russian army this time, which made the United States lose its adult. In fact, the Russian side should comprehensively publicize this matter, so that the Americans will fall into a passive situation in the international market in the future. At this time, Putin is still saving face for the Americans, and obviously has illusions about repairing Russian-American relations, which is not necessarily a good thing for Russia. However, this also proves from the side that the combat effectiveness of the Russian army is in full swing, and I am afraid that Ukraine will be even more difficult in the next step.