Rumors: Poland will receive about 300 Abrams tanks from the United States and give Ukraine 232 PT-91 tanks

Poland may receive about 50 old Abrams tanks from the United States.

What is known

Information shared by Polish

analyst Jarosław Wolski.This does not count the 250 Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 tanks that the Poles have already ordered. Thanks to this decision, the country's armed forces will be able to retire the old PT-91 models. Presumably, they will then go to Ukraine. By the way, Poland now has 232 PT-91 tanks.

Poland has already donated around 240 modernized T-72 tanks to Ukraine.

Will the 232 PT-91 Twardy tanks also be sent, Ukraine will have received nearly 500 tanks from Poland.

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— Visegrad 24 (@visegrad24) July 11, 2022

Let us remind you that PT-91 is the Polish main combattank based on a licensed version of the Soviet T-72M1. The first prototypes of the PT-91 were made in 1993. The basic version of the tank was serially produced at the Bumar-Labenda plant from 1995 to 2002. The main feature of the PT-91 is the Twardy protection using active armor developed by ERAWA. It has 394 blocks. They cover the front of the hull and the turret. These blocks are placed with virtually no gaps to each other. Tests have shown that ERAWA blocks increase tank protection by 30-70%, depending on the type of projectile.

Source: @visegrad24