They’ll be redlined, destroyed, abandoned, or otherwise out of action within a month. Do they have anything else in the inventory with a gas turbine engine? Those things are maintenance hogs. That’s where you’re going to see the lack of training and the different cultural maintenance mindset come into play. The US Army has since WW II cultivated a maintenance intensive mindset with the crews of all our tracked vehicles. If you’re not moving, you’re thinking about maintenance. And all of our vehicles were built with that maintenance culture in mind. Soviet Bloc was different. Mechanically simple and reliable vehicles, but if it couldn’t be fixed by an illiterate seventeen year old driver using nothing more than a ball peen hammer, it’s going back to the depot for repair. That won’t work with our equipment.
