{"id":48018,"date":"2022-07-15T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48018"},"modified":"2022-07-17T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T19:10:16","slug":"poland-indicates-how-many-t-72s-it-delivered-to-ukraine-and-the-tank-that-will-replace-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/15\/poland-indicates-how-many-t-72s-it-delivered-to-ukraine-and-the-tank-that-will-replace-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland indicates how many T-72s it delivered to Ukraine and the tank that will replace them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to hosting millions of refugees, Poland is one of the countries that has given the most military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/02\/k2-black-panther-this-is-the-advanced-main-battle-tank-that-poland-is-considering-buying\/\">K2 Black Panther: this is the advanced main battle tank that Poland is considering buying<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/23\/the-tanks-that-the-uk-plans-to-send-to-poland-in-order-to-deliver-t-72-to-ukraine\/\">The tanks that the UK plans to send to Poland in order to deliver T-72 to Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Poland has delivered to Ukraine more than 240 T-72<\/big><\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, <strong>Poland is the country that has offered the most military aid to Ukraine in proportion to its resources.<\/strong> One of the most notable aspects of that aid has been the delivery of modernized T-72 tanks. At the beginning of May we talked here about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/03\/russia-already-lost-600-tanks-while-ukraine-is-receiving-hundreds-of-tanks-from-poland\/\">the possible delivery of 230 tanks of this type<\/a>, but the figure has never been clear, since the Polish government preferred to keep a certain reserve in this regard, for security reasons. Today the Polish radio station <a href=\"https:\/\/polskieradio24.pl\/5\/1222\/artykul\/3001116\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polskie Radio 24 has pointed out that in reality there were more than 240 T-72s delivered by Poland to Ukraine<\/a>, so that<strong> the Polish Army's armored fleet would currently have the following tanks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>105 Leopard 2A5<\/strong>, a version very similar to the Leopard 2E of the Spanish Army.<\/li>\n<li><strong>142 Leopard 2A4<\/strong>, in process of conversion to Leopard 2PL version.<\/li>\n<li><strong>232 PT-91 \"Twardy\"<\/strong>, a modernized Polish version of the Soviet T-72M tank.<\/li>\n<li><strong>120 T-72M1<\/strong>, old soviet tanks still in service.<\/li>\n<li><strong>About 230 T-72<\/strong> in storage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52048481554_22e0012876_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">One of the T-72 of Soviet origin that the Polish Army had. More than 240 of these tanks would have been delivered by Poland to Ukraine after the beginning of the Russian invasion.<\/div>\n<p><big>Poland will receive 116 second-hand M-1 Abrams in addition to the 250 new ones it already bought<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the Polish Defense Minister, M<strong>ariusz B\u0142aszczak, has announced the purchase of 116 second-hand M-1 Abrams battle tanks from the US<\/strong>, which would be added to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/18\/eeuu-autoriza-una-importante-venta-de-armas-a-polonia-que-incluye-250-tanques-m1-abrams\/\">the 250 new Abrams already purchased by Poland<\/a> and whose sale was authorized by USA in February. B\u0142aszczak pointed out that <strong>an agreement has been reached with the US government for the delivery of those 116 Abrams, and deliveries will begin in early 2023.<\/strong> The minister has not indicated whether Poland will buy those battle tanks or whether it is a donation by the US to supply the T-72 delivered by Poland to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51311069992_8dcfdbb09f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A US Army M1A2 Abrams main battle tank on maneuvers in Poland in July 2020 (Photo: US Army).<\/div>\n<p>At the moment it is not known which variant of the M-1 Abrams will be among those 116 second-hand tanks. What can be concluded is that after its delivery, <strong>Poland will be the world's fourth largest user of the Abrams, after the US, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.<\/strong> Likewise, the acquisition of these battle tanks will mean that the<strong> Polish Army will have one of the largest and most modern armored parks in NATO<\/strong>, surpassing countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain. It is a situation to which the Slavic country is pushed after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/13\/russian-state-duma-threatens-poland-to-be-the-next-attacked-after-ukraine\/\">the threats launched two months ago by the Russian Duma against Poland, pointing it out as the next country to invade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52117366261_2a4fff80b0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The K2 Black Panther being evaluated by the Norwegian Army (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forsvaret.no\/aktuelt-og-presse\/aktuelt\/stridsvogn\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forsvaret.no<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>No news on the possible purchase of the K2 Black Panther from South Korea<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Poland has not yet confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/02\/k2-black-panther-this-is-the-advanced-main-battle-tank-that-poland-is-considering-buying\/\">the possible purchase of K2 Black Panther tanks from South Korea<\/a> that was raised a month ago, with a view to replacing the old Polish T-72. <strong>Until a few months ago, Poland had 590 T-72s, between those in operation and those in storage<\/strong>, so the arrival of those 116 second-hand M-1 Abrams does not exclude the purchase of the South Korean tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to hosting millions of refugees, Poland is one of the countries that has given the most military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11544],"tags":[14383,5910,10910,10370,10469,16153,15458,15307],"class_list":["post-48018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","tag-k2-black-panther","tag-m1-abrams","tag-mariusz-blaszczak","tag-poland","tag-polish-army","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-t-72","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}