Romania is pushing to buy 54 Abrams main battle tanks and related equipment from the United States in a deal worth at least a billion dollars, the defense ministry said Friday.
The ministry said the latest-model tanks would help its military meet regional security challenges. Romania, a NATO member since 2004, shares a long border with war-torn Ukraine.
The sale would include ammunition and training simulators, the ministry said. It said Romania has estimated the contract as worth about $1 billion, but that Congress was notified of a higher value of $2.5 billion after it was approved by the U.S. State Department on Thursday. No timeframe for the purchase was specified.
They use Honeywell AGT1500 multi-fuel turbine engines, which are literally jet engines. Romania doesn’t have the capabilities to operate these at their full extent. Let alone go to war with these. Our logistics are barely suited for our soviet diesel tanks. If we had to go to war with Abrams our logisitcs would literally crumble. These tanks are good only for PR reasons.