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The vaunted main battle tank is about to get some important upgrades. The United States Army will be getting some brand-new tanks—the most recently updated version of its M1A2 Abrams. The Department of Defense (DoD) announced this month that General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. in Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $4,620,000,000 fixed-price-incentive contract to produce Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 tanks. Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received, and work locations and funding will be determined with each order. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Detroit Arsenal, Michigan, is the ...

US Army/Sgt. Calab Franklin The Army has awarded a monster $4.62 billion contract to General Dynamics Land Systems to produce M1A2 SEPv3 tanks for the service over the next eight years. M1A2 SEPv3, known as M1A2C, is the latest version of the venerable Abrams tank, and it has been upgraded and is set to be "the foundational variant for all future incremental upgrades." It's been more than three years since the Army first took delivery of the first of its souped-up new version of the M1 Abrams main battle tank, and the service clearly likes what it sees.

General Dynamics to build upgraded Abrams tanks in $4.62B contract By (0) General Dynamics will built the latest version of the M1 Abrams tank in a $4.62 billion contract announced on Friday by the Defense Department. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army  Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army will purchase the latest iteration of the M1 Abrams tank in a $4.62 billion contract with General Dynamics, the Defense Department announced. The battle tank, regarded by many as the world's best, first entered service in 1980. Advertisement The newest version, known as the M1A2C or the M1A2 SEPV3, includes a variet...