{"id":53467,"date":"2023-10-18T20:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53467"},"modified":"2023-10-23T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:34:07","slug":"a-surprise-for-drivers-polish-army-tanks-driving-through-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/18\/a-surprise-for-drivers-polish-army-tanks-driving-through-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"A surprise for drivers: Polish Army tanks driving through Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of some parts of Germany must be very used to seeing military vehicles near their homes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/17\/poland-displays-its-formidable-military-power-on-the-anniversary-of-the-1939-soviet-invasion\/\">Poland displays its formidable military power on the anniversary of the 1939 Soviet invasion<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/28\/the-arrival-in-poland-of-its-first-m1-abrams-tanks-to-face-the-russian-threat\/\">The arrival in Poland of its first M1 Abrams tanks to face the Russian threat<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This is the case of the town of Hohenfels, in Bavaria, where there is an important NATO training camp. In September, <strong>4,000 soldiers from 16 Alliance countries participated in Exercise Saber Junction 23<\/strong> at that training camp. Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@military-database4472\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Military-Database<\/a> has published a video related to this exercise: <strong>a convoy of T-72 tanks of the Polish Army circulating on a German road<\/strong>, specifically the one that connects the Hohenfels training camp with the Parsberg loading station, where the tanks were loaded on a train:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2023 Saber Junction - Polnische T-72 Kampfpanzer in Deutschland\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/penCA9SyCms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the Polish military newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/polska-zbrojna.pl\/home\/articleshow\/40349?t=Polacy-na-czele-miedzynarodowej-dywizji\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polska Zbrojna<\/a>, <strong>the Polish tanks belonged to the 11th Armored Cavalry Division \"Lubuska\"<\/strong>, based in \u017baga\u0144, in western Poland. The Polish Army sent a total of 200 soldiers to these maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53268237674_2abb0cc526_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-today.com\/tanks\/leopard_2pl.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Military Today<\/a>, <strong>before the Russian invasion Poland had 120 active T-72s and another 470 in storage<\/strong>as well as 233 PT-91 Twardys, a modernized Polish version of the Soviet T-72. <strong>About 290 T-72s were donated by Poland to Ukraine <\/strong> to help in its defense against the Russian invasion, but the Polish Army still has many of these tanks in storage or in operation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53268237634_96837c0b80_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The tanks that appear in this video are of the T-72M1R variant<\/strong> and are equipped with a thermal scope on the left side of their turrets, in front of the gunner's hatch, and with a control system renewed fire. <strong>Many drivers will have been surprised to see these tanks circulating on their roads.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of some parts of Germany must be very used to seeing military vehicles near their homes.<\/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":[19534,11544],"tags":[15664,18679,10929,14269,10370,10469,20204,15458],"class_list":["post-53467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-army","tag-11th-armored-cavalry-division-lubuska","tag-bavaria","tag-germany","tag-hohenfels","tag-poland","tag-polish-army","tag-saber-junction-23","tag-t-72"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 01:54:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=53467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}