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Originally Posted by CroFlames
178 Leos? Man this war is staggeringly big. I just hope with the influx of all these heavy weapons, they Allies can quickly vanquish the Russians and send them home. Then build the greatest Maginot line possible on the border. Russians should stay in Russia. Forever.
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Keep in mind these are really old tanks that can't really be used against Russia's front line stuff, but will be fine taking out BMPs, fortifications, and old T-62/T-64s just fine. And this is what Germany can deliver over the entire year. Rhinemetall has said they won't be able to ramp up that quickly and the first deliveries are months out.
Russia knows the western tanks are coming from all the public announcements, but they also know all the new equipment will take refurb time and training, which is why they are planning to zerg rush as many as 300K conscripts before the tanks show up en masse. I imagine a lot of these Leos will end up just replacing destroyed equipment the Ukrainians have lost or supplying one of the many new Ukrainian units that have formed since the start of the war. Another question is now how much territory will Ukraine lose buying time for all this new stuff to arrive and if Western allies can make the aggressive delivery schedules.