Send in the TANKS!!!
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That's all they have, by the way. It's a shitty cold war refit no less, and not fit for modern combat, but that's all of Germany's tank force. They're effectively declaring war.
Umm no, Leopard 2s first entered service in 1979, the Abrams in 1980. They're not old tanks, they're still in the latest generation of tanks. They just get periodic upgrades.
Leopard 2 is better than literally everything Russia has, and Russian tank designs have been exposed as being particularly shitty and not fit for modern combat. Russia has lost so many of them, it's stopped using them out of fear of running out. Notice how you never hear about Russian tanks being used around Bakhmut? That's why. They're afraid to lose them.
The 2A6 is the main front line version used in the German military. It's not an older reserve unit. Meanwhile Russia is digging tanks from the 1960s out of storage.
Literally wat.
1979 is exactly a cold war relic. And unless you're about to try and tell me that the Germans are sending along modern reactive armor tech that I know they don't have, then one metal box doesn't make much difference next to another.
Germany doesn't HAVE a front line anything, much less a tank doctrine. The Bundeswehr is a jobs program for smokers. They're lucky if they show up to NATO exercises with their own MREs for God's sakes, in every instance in which I've ever seen them they performed only marginally less worse than the goddamn Afghanis, and those guys were so bad you might as well hand out rifles to a platoon of labradors. If all 14 of those P2s have working engines, I'll be surprised.