It has got to be disheartening for pro-Russians after they were so excited a few pieces of western armor were killed before, just to see Ukraine’s forces quickly brought back to higher than the prior strength.
Unfortunately we will see a lot more destroyed NATO hardware before the war is over. But timing wise, the US having a lot of excess hardware they are looking to phase out anyway helps a lot.
I don’t believe that the Bradley is currently being phased out. There’s a proposed replacement in the works, but that’s in the future.
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Each team is expected to develop detailed designs over the next two years, followed by a competitive prototyping phase beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, during which the teams will build a minimum of seven prototype vehicles with an option to build four more.
Not even in prototypes yet, and the Army has cancelled a bunch of attempts at vehicle replacements in the past partway through.
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Other equipment in the latest drawdown:
- Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;
- Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
- Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
- Demolitions munitions and systems for obstacle clearing;
- Mine clearing equipment;
- 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
- Javelin anti-armor systems;
- AT-4 anti-armor systems;
- Anti-armor rockets;
- High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
- Precision aerial munitions;
- Small arms and over 22 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades;
- Thermal imagery systems and night vision devices;
- Testing and diagnostic equipment to support vehicle maintenance and repair;
- Spare parts, generators, and other field equipment.
Hey Siri, how to demilitarize a country?