But German Leopards and American Abrams tanks are still off the table.
"I just don't think we're there yet," Colin Kahl, undersecretary for defense policy, said this week, "The Abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment," he argued.
Just over 2,000 Abrams tanks were deployed with combat units during the war, and only 23 were damaged or destroyed.
In the aftermath of the Gulf War, the US military developed the M1A2 Abrams, which has steadily been upgraded over the past two decades.
The Abrams tank also saw extensive combat early in the Iraq War and was used to some extent in Afghanistan.