Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
There are now reports circulating that Britain is considering supplying Challenger 2 (maybe 10 units ) to Ukraine. How long would it take for experienced tankers to learn to use a new system sufficiently to go into combat ? How long to train maintenance crews able to support them ?
Maintenance will be the challenge (no pun intended). Keeping the mechanical stuff going, mostly. I think the Ukrainian techies could handle adapting the comms/data/targeting side OK, they are good at that.
Getting experienced tank crews up to speed should be the easy bit. May be we could put some REME people just over the border in Poland or Romania to set up a maintenance unit and train the Ukrainian maintainers in the fine art of British mechanical engineering (rather them than me)?