The U.S. Army is sending M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks to the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania along Russia’s borders.
The tanks participated in joint drills between U.S. and Polish forces but some are being moved to the Baltic states to await a deterrence operation set to reassure the United States’ European allies that Washington, D.C., is committed to their defense.
The United States deployed 87 tanks, 144 armored vehicles and 3,500 troops — the biggest U.S. deployment in Europe since the end of the Cold War — to perform regional operations through most of 2017 to combat Russian aggression, the Pentagon said.