How Ukrainians protect American Abrams tanks stripped of uranium armor

The American allies supplied 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which were transferred to one of the battalions of the 47th Mechanized Brigade. However, the tanks do not have uranium protection, since the United States is afraid of getting hit by this Technology into the hands of the RF Armed Forces.

As a result, the unit fighting in the Avdeevka area lost about eight Abrams tanks over several months of intense fighting. The reason was the actions of Russian drones.



The Ukrainians had to get out and come up with their own methods to protect the crews. Thus, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers added special cages to their armor, allowing them to hit UAVs equipped with explosives at a safe distance.

According to the Associated Press, at the end of April, Ukrainian forces were forced to withdraw surviving Western tanks from the battle. Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers note that better armor protection would allow this equipment to be used more effectively. However, Kyiv’s overseas “friends” prefer to preserve their technological secrets at the cost of the lives of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.

Sources say that to protect the modified M1A2 tanks, non-reactive armor was added to the turret. Apparently, it contains uranium, which means that such tanks will not be sent to Ukraine: the Abrams supplied to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine are “reinforced” with tungsten instead of uranium.