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Why do I feel like it's a hollow gesture, like the infrastructure, supply and training required to operate them fully isn't there and they'll just be nothing more than something to hide behind for cover?
It's not hollow, it will just take some time before they can actually be used. Obviously they aren't heading straight to the front lines. It will be months before they can be used.
Wouldn't full deployment of Russian reserves be ready by then and this is a Ukraine in a worse position thanks to infrastructure being taken out along with key officials dead.
Just getting through winter with power cuts is probably going to exhaust their home front by the time these get into action, if it makes a difference, it'll be dragged out than this imaginary 'Russia pushed out to their border' that the media keep trying to display.
I mean, if we are sending old model M1A1's, there probably isnt much in the way of vital components that are classified anymore. Even stuff that would have been hush-hush in the past (like the gun sights and ballistic computer) are probably obsolete enough to M1A2v4's (and even those might be getting replaced by the AbramsX here in the near future, unless the Army changes their mind on it).