Australia's 49 M1A1 "Abrams" tanks, which are aid to the Ukrainian armed forces, have arrived in Ukraine. On July 19 local time, Australia completed the delivery of the first batch of M1A1 "Abrams" main battle tanks to Ukraine, at least 25 out of a total of 49. This news was announced by the Australian government and is part of an Australian military aid plan worth 160 million dollars for the Ukrainian army. The remaining tanks will be delivered in the coming months.

Previously, there were reports that US President Trump wanted to block Australia's aid plan to the Ukrainian army because the performance of the M1A1 "Abrams" tanks used by the Ukrainian army on the battlefield was poor, resulting in heavy losses, which severely damaged the reputation of the American M1A1 "Abrams" tank. However, as Australia has no threat of land warfare, it is very firm in its stance, saying it would send tanks, and it did so. The basic performance is similar to the previous batch of 31 M1A1SA tanks provided by the United States, so the outcome is also similar. In a local war in the post-Cold War era, these Cold War-era weapons have become rare items.

On the 18th, Germany's M270 long-range rocket launcher, which was aid to the Ukrainian army, was photographed heading to Romania on the M4 highway (Figure 4). The situation on the Ukraine-Russia battlefield is extremely mysterious, and no images of strikes against Russian forces have been released so far. The US-made M270 tracked self-propelled rocket launcher finally appeared. Previously, NATO countries, including Germany, sent their M270 long-range rocket launchers to the Ukrainian army. Even Japan was said to have cleared the shells of the M270 long-range rocket launchers and sent them to the Ukrainian army. However, the name of the M270 long-range rocket launcher on the Ukrainian battlefield is not as well-known as the US-made HIMARS long-range rocket launcher. The main reason is that the M270 long-range rocket launcher moves slowly, making it easy to be locked by the Russian forces, and this is related to the fact that the Ukrainian army uses it less.

On the 19th, a French military company provided the Ukrainian army with a fake target of the "Caesar" truck gun, a decoy target, which looks much worse than the decoy models produced in Ukraine.

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