47th Brigade showed combat use of its M1A1 SA Abrams tanks

Soldiers of the 47th Mechanized Brigade showed the combat use of their M1A1 SA Abrams tanks in the Avdiivka direction.

The corresponding video was released by the press service of the brigade.

“And while Russian invaders are trying to understand where Abrams tanks are, tankers of the 47th Mechanized Brigade have been “dismantling” Russian invaders and their equipment for molecules for more than a month,” the Brigade said.

In the video, there is shown the presence of ARAT ERA protection on combat vehicles. As Militarnyi previously reported in January the SA tanks of Armed Forces of Ukraine had been equipped with an Abrams Reactive Armor (ARAT-1) protection.

By this time, the United States-supplied M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks in a special SA (situational awareness) version were “sparkled” without additional elements of armor protection.

ARAT ERA is included in the Tank Urban Survival Kit (TUSK), which was actively used by American tankers during the Iraq campaign.

The path of Abrams tanks to Ukraine

At the end of May 2023, 200 Ukrainian servicemen began training on M1 Abrams tanks at an American military base in Germany.

The training program involved not only training crews for operating tanks, but also training personnel for maintaining these combat vehicles.

In early August, the United States officially approved the transfer of the first batch of Abrams tanks to Ukraine. The main training course for crews and technical personnel on these tanks was completed in August.

It was originally planned that the funds of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative would be used to transfer American tanks to Ukraine to purchase new equipment from the manufacturer.

Then they decided to withdraw equipment from the US Army reserves, and before sending tanks to Ukraine, they were repaired and converted.

The states also included depleted uranium armor-piercing rounds in a military aid package to Ukraine that was announced on September 6.

Militarnyi on October 17, 2023 reported that all M1 Abrams promised by the United States had arrived in Ukraine.