yesterday at a briefing in the white house, the national security coordinator, retired admiral john kerbetabrams tanks are expensive here, besides all this, it takes time to train crews, prepare logistics chains, train engineering and technical personnel, they themselves it is very expensive for itself and vpetron believes that it cannot transfer to ukraine or any other foreign country those abrams tanks that are on the bases of the pentagon, on the storage bases there , it is possible, like several thousand abrams tanks with crude modification, but the united states believes that it is inappropriate to take these tanks, repair them, and transfer them to ukraine because they are no longer modern, on the one hand, on the other hand, again, it will be a lot of money that will need to be invested in their preparation for the handover. no, and that's why the united states decided this question in another way, it decided to purchase new tanks, even the newest modification of the abrams modena 2. that is, it will be 31 tanks of the purchased manufacturer, but it is 400-400 million dollars. that