A brand new batch of 38 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams essential battle tanks has been delivered to the Polish Army, putting the service on observe to turn into the biggest overseas operator of the American tank class as its solely overseas operator with NATO. The tanks have been ordered in April 2022 underneath a $4.8 billion contract, with the most recent batch being the third to have been delivered. This adopted a previous order for 116 much less succesful second hand M1A1 tanks, the ultimate batch of which was delivered in July 2024, simply 13 months after the primary tanks arrived within the nation on June 28, 2023. In comparison with the M1A1, the M1A2 SEPv3 has thicker turret and hull entrance armour, is simpler to take care of, and boasts an elevated energy technology and distribution capability and superior community centric warfare capabilities, whereas additionally being appropriate with the brand new M829A4 kinetic vitality anti-tank spherical. The earlier batch of M1A2 SEPv3 tanks was delivered in Might 2025,
Fast procurements of Abrams tanks, and parallel procurements of even higher numbers of South Korean K2 tanks, has allowed the Polish Army to retire its prior inventories German Leopard 2 and SovietT-72 and PT-71 tanks, with these tanks being delivered to Ukraine in vital numbers. The variety of T-72s provided by Poland is estimated to be approaching 350, with these deliveries, and the fast losses of Ukraine’s extra complicated T-64 tanks, main the T-72 to rapidly emerge because the spine of its fleet. Though the US has additionally delivered Abrams tanks to Ukraine, theirperformance underneath fight situations has been mirrored on poorly by Ukrainian crews, who’ve complained of technical points together with vulnerability of digital elements to condensation, in addition to the tank’s demonstrated vulnerability in fight. The tanks noticed their first engagements with Russian forces in February 2024, taking heavy losses together with to drones, anti tank missiles and the weapons of T-72 tanks. The Ukrainian Army was assessed in June 2025 to have misplaced 87 % of the American sourced automobiles it had acquired.
