President Biden confirmed today that Bradley Fighting Vehicles are now on the table for Ukraine Usually, conformation like that leads to a delivery conformation shortly thereafter.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine was being considered to help the that country fight Russia's invasion.
www.reuters.com
I suspect that the Americans will likely send Bradley M2s, given that they have more than 5000 of them in their inventory and are in the process of phasing out their legacy M2s in the coming years. They have purchased 700 M2A4's to replace them as an initial replacement. The Bradleys will fit nicely into the Ukrainian war inventory, serving as a nice upgrade to Ukraine's BMP-1 and BMP-2 IFVs. I'd like to see the Americans donate roughly 500 Bradley's over the course of 2023. That's less than 10% of the total Bradley force (6200+ M2 and M3 variants), and enough to outfit 3 armoured brigades, with extras.
2023 wish list of SIGNIFICANT deliveries to Ukraine (some previously announced)
100 Leopard 2 (A4/A5/A6) Tanks
200 T-72 tanks (Facilitated by the Czechs, USA and The Netherlands, through a multinational effort)
500 M2 Bradley IFVs
100 FNSS ACV-15
100 Marder IFVs
500 HMMWVs (TOW / .50 Cal variant)
250 M1117 APCs (announced in 2022)
200 BMC Kirpi APCs (announced in 2022)
100 VAB APCs
100 Bushmaster APCs
60 AHS Krab 155mm Self Propelled Howitzers (purchased in 2022)
12 CAESAR 155mm Self Propelled Howitzers (initially intended for Denmark)
25 Panzerhaubitze 2000 155mm Self Propelled Howitzers (25/100 purchased in 2022)
25 M109A6 155mm Self Propelled Howitzers
16 Zuzana-2 155mm Self Propelled Howitzers (purchased in 2022)
100 Heavy Mortar Systems (120mm/82mm/60mm)
50 BM21 GRAD
12 MLRS (M270/HIMARS/TLRG-230)
30 Mig-29 Fighter Jets (Slovakia and Poland have been ready to hand these over)
24 F-16 Fighter Jets
24 MI-8/17/24 Helicopters
20 MQ-9 Reaper UAVs
50 Gepard Self Propelled Anti-Aircraft Systems
2 SAMP/T Air Defense Batteries (1 already announced from Italy / France)
4 NASAMS Air Defense Batteries (2/6 purchased by USA have already been delivered)
4 Iris-T Air Defense Batteries (1/4 purchased by Germany has already been delivered)
3 MIM 104 Patriot Air Defense Batteries
25 Counter Battery RADARS (multi variant)
500-1000 Drones with advanced optics
Essentially, enough heavy equipment, air capability and air defense systems to make Russia's campaign a living hell for their mobilization effort. Russia's army has already taken a significant beating. The above would ensure that it would be a long time until they posed any serious thread to the West moving forward. I'd like to see us (The West) train and fully arm 20-30 new Ukrainian Brigades in 2023, as well as train up a couple hundred Ukrainian pilots across NATO countries.