Gearing has entered accepting the donation of 400 U.S. battle tanks M1A1 Abrams, and the line (as has already written the defencenet.gr from May) has been and currently debated issues of support and use the floats factory, but details of the load.
Hopefully, maybe in the summer, however, in any event within the year, the M1A1 Abrams will equip the Greek T / H and M / K brigades and will replace the outdated LEO1A5, and the remaining M60A3 in front line units.
One of the reasons for the acceleration of the commission is the vertical support of militant force of first Turkish Army in Eastern Thrace, which now has come to be staffed on staff as a whole, almost, of the Greek Armed Forces and the three branches, with over 100,000 staff!
It is the largest concentration of military personnel in proportion to the area where are concentrated across Europe and one of the largest in the world, perhaps with the border of North and South Korea to gather today to such an extent similar personnel.
Accepting the donation of the M1A1 was not so stuck on the issue of funding the war as the German lobby in the ED when they are received in that particular part "German-" Armor Division of the GES and elsewhere: even took "soldiers Networks" and NGOs (!) to speak up against their receipt, and various Improbable "journalists" until ... Austrian parliamentarians and other such fun.
All this to avoid "the German monopoly" in the tanks, which in any event had to offer something similar to that used for tanks LEO2A4.
In any event the tanks come (to note the willingness of former A / GES and former Defense official Minister F.Fragkou and partially counterbalance in the power balance in the Evros region.
The LEO1A5 will be transported to the islands to replace the M48A5. The number "48" is perceived when designed: Three years after the end of WWII ...
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