The U.S. State Division has authorized a $185 million International Army Sale to Ukraine targeted on spare elements and sustainment assist for U.S.-built floor and artillery techniques, aiming to enhance battlefield availability for M1A1 Abrams tanks, Bradley combating autos, HIMARS rocket artillery techniques, M777 howitzers, and different tools. The authorized International Army Sale is estimated at $185 million to maintain tools operating, repaired, and mission-capable beneath battlefield put on, whereas strengthening Ukraine’s native sustainment capability and sustaining increased operational charges for American-designed autos and weapon techniques. Over 300 Bradley infantry combating autos, over 400 Stryker armoured personnel carriers, and greater than 900 M113 armoured personnel carriers within the floor manoeuvre fleethave already been provided, alongside greater than 40 HIMARS launchers and greater than 200 155mm howitzers, which Ukraine’s Soviet-styled defence sector want important assist to keep up.
Though Ukraine was in early June 2025 assessed to have misplaced 87 % of its American-supplied M1A1 Abrams tanks, with 27 of the 31 autos destroyed or captured, these losses have been replenished by the supply of 49 former Australian Army Abrams tanks in late 2025. The US has in the meantime sustained deliveries of Bradley combating autos, HIMARS rocket artillery techniques, and different property. The Abrams has notably demanding upkeep and fuelling wants, and requires particular spares elements, filtration, and powerpack assist for its distinctive gasoline turbine engine. Ukraine has gained appreciable assist from Western contractor and lively obligation personnel each to assist sustaining its tools, and to utilise it, together with supporting complicated focusing on for precision guided techniques akin to HIMARS utilizing knowledge from Western surveillance plane and satellites.
Ukrainian tank items have suffered from very low availability, because of each heavy fight losses that can’t be replenished, and because of difficulties sustaining the autos which are in service. “They’re seen because the final argument of kings on the battlefield,” famous Ukrainain armoured warfare specialist Mykola Salamakha, who’s tressed that poor use of the autos, together with for operations targeted on boosting morale, has been an vital contributor to losses. “They ship a tank ahead simply to indicate the infantry they’ve assist — we lose them in such operations,” he recalled for example. Concerning fight readiness charges, he noticed that at present just one third, and in some circumstances only one fifth, of the Army’s tanks are thought-about combat-ready. The effectiveness of Abrams tanks delivered by Australia has been notably delivered to query because of their appreciable put on after a long time of use, distinction with the state of the newly constructed tanks provided by the US.
Whereas army tools provided by the US has been typically properly regarded, the standard of European armaments, specifically that from Germany and Italy, has constantly been questioned. A notable instance is Germany’s most succesful self-propelled artillery system the PzH 2000, which drew widespread criticism after its first excessive depth fight assessments. German media outlet Der Spiegel reported only a month after the primary deliveries to Ukraine in 2022 that the howitzers had been displaying important indicators of “put on and tear,” and breaking down quickly, forcing the Ukrainian Army to rely extra on its artillery acquired from different sources, such because the far more reliable M777s offered by the US. Solely Italian artillery techniques proved to be considerably much less dependable. German-supplied Leopard 2A6 foremost battle tanks equally carried out way more poorly than Western sources had projected, and shortly suffered excessive losses, whereas in late 2025 the Ukrainian Armed Forces suspended procurements of German HX-2 strike drones, after their performances had been discovered to be properly under required requirements.
