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The National Interest Online (blog)
April 12, 2018
Being engineered as among the most survivable and heavily armored vehicles in existence, the Abrams tank is built to withstand a high degree of enemy fire, such some enemy tank rounds, RPGs, rockets and missiles. Abrams tanks can also carry reactive armor, material used to explode incoming enemyÃâà...
Breaking Defense
April 12, 2018
Army Futures Command is just a means to an end: modernizing the Army for high-intensity war against Russia or China. That includes replacing the iconic but aging M1 Abrams main battle tank, as well as other war machines, with an all-new Next Generation Combat Vehicle optimized for urban warfare,Ãâà...
Business Insider
April 11, 2018
The video linked below shows an M1 Abrams tank performing a near-perfect drift. The footage was shot during the Cold Response exercise by NATO forces back in 2016. The M1 Abrams main battle tank may be the most iconic armored combat vehicle in the Department of Defense's arsenal.
Markets Insider
April 10, 2018
The brigade's reorganization involved adding three platforms: the Paladin self-propelled howitzer, the Bradley fighting vehicle, and the Abrams tank. Between August and October 2017, Army engineers built a new, 2.8-acre concrete-pad motor park at Fort Stewart to accommodate the new vehicles.
Jalopnik
April 6, 2018
Since the summer of 2014, one of America's most prized battlefield weapons, the M1 Abrams tank, has been used by those it was meant to fight. Captured M1 tanks have fought with ISIS and have recently been used by Iranian-backed Shia militias to put down a Kurdish movement for independence.
Department of Defense
April 4, 2018
Soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division's Delta Tank Company, 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, fired their newly acquired M1A1-SA Abrams tanks here March 29. An M1A1-SA Abrams tank belonging to D Troop, 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd ArmoredÃâà...
Army Recognition
March 31, 2018
The M1 Abrams tank is the biggest winner in the Army's acquisition budget. US Army has requested $1.5 billion to upgrade 135 tanks (including 40 paid for with OCO funding), compared to only 20 tanks projected for FY19 in the previous year's budget plan. The Army also wants $961.6 million for otherÃâà...
The Drive
March 31, 2018
The Modular Active Protection System will be able to run multiple types of protection systems and could pave the way for networked defenses. By Joseph TrevithickMarch 30, 2018. The War Zone Ãâ÷ Abrams Ãâ÷ active protection systems Ãâ÷ Bradley Ãâ÷ Drones Ãâ÷ Electronic Warfare Ãâ÷ Maps Ãâ÷ modularity Ãâ÷ Netcentric Warfare Ãâ÷ networksÃâà...
The Fort Hood Sentinel
March 29, 2018
The Directorate of Public Works at Fort Hood partnered with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth Division, to complete the 14-month-long project. “The bridge was built to be able to handle a 100-ton vehicle; an Abrams tank is 70 tons,” Dosa said. “We can handle everything that the ArmyÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
March 29, 2018
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — It sounded like the beginning of Ragnarok. Tanks sped up to engage enemy targets while mortars and artillery lobbed rounds overhead, and helicopter gunships launched missiles during a high-speed, live-fire exercise. More than a dozen M1A2 Abrams tanks and M2Ãâà...
Popular Mechanics
March 28, 2018
NGCV is the Army's third attempt to replace the Abrams tank and the Bradley IFV. During the 2000s, the cancelled Future Combat Systems program spent $18.1 billion without fielding a single vehicle. The NGCV program path seems both rapid and fairly realistic, with a focus previous failed programs lackedÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
March 20, 2018
During Operation Desert Storm, the world watched as approximately 2,000 M1 Abrams tank demonstrated the warfighting capabilities of American armor. By the end of the conflict, the M1 Abrams proved to be a monumental success, as the massive fleet destroyed roughly 2,600 enemy vehicles. Only nine of ourÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 14, 2018
While the world is familiar with the now-iconic M1 Abrams tank, the M60 tank served during an important time in American history, defending key American allies and provided the U.S. Army in Europe with a solid, dependable tank to fend off the armored hordes of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
Task & Purpose
March 13, 2018
But instead of working on the family sedan, it was a 63-ton war machine — an M1A1 Abrams tank. Using hammers, wrenches and other tools, the four soldiers disconnected part of the tank's track before making repairs. Jawitz said the team chooses a new tank to work on each week. The goal is to makeÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 12, 2018
The revved-up effort is likely to evolve into a family of vehicles to fight alongside or succeed the Abrams tank, Bradley Fighting Vehicle and Stryker among other armored platforms. Development of the new armored vehicles is being pursued in alignment with the Army's shifting modernization strategy,Ãâà...
Helena Independent Record
March 7, 2018
This is an M1A2 TUSK Abrams Tank, similar to the one involved in a rollover near Townsend. Wikimedia Commons. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ Email; Print; Save. The 163rd Infantry Battalion based at Fort Harrison was involved in a battle tank rollover during a training exercise last month near Townsend.
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 2, 2018
An Iraqi army M1A1 Abrams tank on its way to Mosul, on Nov. 4, 2016. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images). The U.S. company that repairs Iraq's American-made M1A1 Abrams tanks has pulled many of its people from Iraq after at least nine of the armored vehicles ended up in the hands of pro-Iran militias. NowÃâà...
War Is Boring
February 27, 2018
Ten years ago, the United States approved an arms deal supplying 140 M-1A1 main battle tanks to Iraq. Turkey, another Middle East user of Western armor, relies heavily on German-made Leopard tanks. But in recent weeks, both the United States and Germany have expressed growing wariness over howÃâà...
Business Insider
February 27, 2018
"The chamber pressure for the standard assault rifle is around 45 KSI [kilopound per square inch], but we're looking for between 60 and 80 KSI … the chamber pressure when an M1 Abrams tank fires is on that order," Gordon told Task & Purpose. "We're looking to reach out around 600 meters and have lethal effects even ifÃâà...
Business Insider
February 21, 2018
FORT BLISS, Texas — I was riding in a government SUV down the dirt roads of the large training ground at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. My guides were two Army public affairs officers. A large military exercise called Bulldog Focus, which involved the entire 3rd Brigade of the 1st Armored Division, wasÃâà...
Business Insider
February 16, 2018
"It is a great step forward in reliability, sustainability, protection, and on-board power which positions the Abrams tank and our ABCTs for the future." Under the fiscal-year 2019 budget, $1.5 billion would go toward upgrading 135 M1A1 Abrams tanks to the M1A2 SEP v3, with delivery of the first six set for JulyÃâà...
Popular Mechanics
February 14, 2018
More than 250 of the U.S. Army's Abrams tanks will be equipped with a system designed to sense and destroy incoming anti-tank warheads. Breaking Defense reports the U.S. Army, as part of its 2019 budget, will purchase 261 Trophy anti-tank active protection systems (APS) for its Abrams tanks.
Stars and Stripes
February 9, 2018
more top news. Soldiers ride in an M-1A1 Abrams tank in the 1991 National Victory Celebration parade. Pentagon spokesman: Planning for parade requested by Trump still in early stages. An image from a Russia's state-operated Channel 1 broadcast purportedly showing combat footage from. RussianÃâà...
Kurdistan24
February 7, 2018
US report confirms nine Abrams tanks ended up with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. Fighters of the Al-Badr Brigade militias, a faction within the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi, using a US-supplied Abrams tank provided to the Iraqi army. (Photo: Al-Badr Organization media). Iraq Iran US Hashd al-Shaabi Abrams. A+ A A-.
We Are The Mighty (blog)
February 7, 2018
What happens to an Abrams tank if hit by a battleship shell. By Harold Hutchison Feb. 07, 02:28 PM. The M1A2 Abrams main battle tank is arguably the best in the world. Yeah, Russia is generating some hype for the Armata family of tanks, but the Abrams is combat-proven and very hard to kill. AbramsÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
December 31, 1999
Crew members of a US Abrams tank were giving me a tour of their tank on the sandy training grounds of Fort Bliss when I asked them what they thought about Russia's next-generation T-14 Armata tank. At first, they were a little taken aback and looked at each other as if they weren't sure whether theyÃâà...
Great Falls Tribune
December 31, 1999
TOWNSEND — A tank rollover at the Montana Army National Guard Limestone Hills Training Area is under investigation. Two tanks of the 163rd Infantry Battalion narrowly avoided a collision on an icy trail toward the end of a training on February 8. Instead of striking the first tank, which also lost traction andÃâà...
Markets Insider
December 31, 1999
I asked crew members of a US Abrams tank what they thought about Russia's next-generation T-14 Armata tank. They said it seemed like a capable platform but that its autoloader and automated turret didn't seem practical. They also said the idea that the tank could eventually be unmanned seemed ratherÃâà...
Markets Insider
December 31, 1999
Abrams and Bradley moving A Bradley and Abrams tank drive down the dirt road training grounds at Fort Bliss. Daniel Brown/Business Insider. FORT BLISS, Texas — I was climbing in, on, and around an M1A2 Abrams tank parked on the uneven, bushy terrain of the sandy training grounds at Fort Bliss.
