Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Four U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams battle tanks and 15 Bradley Fighting Vehicles arrived in Estonia on Monday as part of NATO's Operation Atlantic Resolve.
U.S. troops of the 68th Armored Regiment's 1st Battalion arrived Friday, the Estonian Defense Forces said in a statement.
"The infantry company's heavy equipment with tanks and armored fighting vehicles arrived at Estonia's Tapa station," Estonian Defense Forces said
The company replaced the 173rd Airborne Brigade's 503rd Infantry Regiment, which arrived in September. The U.S. Department of Defense said the move to Estonia shows how the U.S. forces are able to "move freely from one NATO country to another."
In NATO's Operation Atlantic Resolve, the United States has deployed troops in Europe that will train in Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia for the next eight months as a show of force to directly respond to what the alliance sees as increased Russian aggression.
Kommentaarid on kirjutatud EWR lugejate poolt. Nende sisu ei pruugi ühtida EWR toimetuse seisukohtadega.
so10 Feb 2017 14:41
Who was the enemy - the communists or the Russians?
Who financed the communists ... is now financing the ukrainian puppet zionist government, the unchecked muslim migration into european nation states, globalism and anti-putinism.
In the Winter War of 1939-40, the Soviets attacked Finland and thought that they'd be in Helsinki within three weeks. Under-equipped and out-numbered, the Finns fought tenaciously for their lives and their land. Russian boys fought reluctantly for Stalin. The NKVD forced them into mass suicide attacks. If they didn't charge Finnish guns, they were shot from behind. When it was all over, Finland lost 18,000 soldiers and the province of Karelia. The Soviets lost a million men! Hitler witnessed this and was encouraged; concluding that the Soviet Union was a soft target and without US aid, it would have been. I hope that Putin thinks about this before he makes plans to occupy Estonia. It could cost him dearly. Estonia's best defence would be to line the border with barrels of vodka to stop invading troops cold.
