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Back in the 1990s I recall reading Tom Clancy’s loving paean to the M1 Abrams, Armored Cav, in which he related that the unkillable tank had never been knocked out by hostile fire. The Abrams’ 120mm cannon effortlessly peeled the turrets off of T-72 tanks in the Gulf War, while Russian anti-tank missiles and 125mm shells couldn’t pierce the American tank’s Chobham armor. In fact, the Abram’s own gun reportedly struggled to penetrate the Abram’s depleted uranium armor. This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest. Since then the Abrams has been involved...

Creeping weight of Abrams tank concerns Pentagon’s chief weapons tester January 26 A GREYWOLF Trooper, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, prepares his M1A2 SEPV3 for a gunnery live fire exercise, Fort Hood, Texas, Aug. 30, 2020. The addition of the new M1A2 SEPV3 Abrams Main Battle Tank is a part of the Army's ongoing modernization efforts. The training these First Team Troopers receive now prepares them for future large scale ground combat operations. (Sgt. Calab Franklin/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 tank is heavier than previous iterations and th...

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 muc...

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 ...