The military may well acquire hundreds of the high-advanced new Abrams variant.
The Army is making a massive, $4.62 billion buy of the emerging, upgraded variant of the Abrams tank, signaling continued confidence in the value of heavy armor and bringing a wide sphere of new combat attack-enhancing technologies.
The concept with the M1A2SEPv3 Abrams variant is to bring new technologies, firepower, computing, high-fidelity sensing and survivability systems to the decades-old platform, to essentially re-engineer it in some ways into a new tank. The current upgraded Abrams, for instance, is much different in terms of combat performance than the original tank which first emerged in the 1980s.