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The Army began the XM815 project in January 1972. The Main Battle Tank Task Force was established under Major General William R. Desobry. [a] The task force prepared design studies with the technical support of Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM).
United States – United States Marine Corps: In 2020 the Marine Corps announced the disbandment of its tank units, citing a pivot towards amphibious warfare by implementing Force Design 2030. [353] All 450 of the Marine Corps M1 Abrams MBTs were transferred to the U.S. Army with withdrawal from Marine Corps service being completed in May 2021.
"The Evolution of the Tank in the U.S. Army" (PDF). Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2021; United States. War Department. General Staff (1933). Report of the Chief of Staff, United States Army to the Secretary of War. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Standard Military Vehicle Data Sheets. Ordnance Tank Automotive Cmd. 1959. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014; TM 9-500 Data Sheets for Ordnance Type Material (PDF). US Dept. of the Army. 1962; TM 9-2800 Standard Military Motor Vehicles. US Dept. of the Army. 1943
The 37th Armor is an armor (tank) regiment of the United States Army. It is the successor to the 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division , commanded by then Lieutenant Colonel Creighton Abrams (the namesake of the M1 Abrams ) during World War II .
Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia, in part because Russian drone warfare has made it too difficult for them to operate without ...
Australia is set to transfer nearly 50 American-made M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, officials confirmed on Wednesday. Australia is going to more than double the size of Ukraine's Abrams tank force ...
In 1940, the distinction between infantry and cavalry tank units disappeared with the establishment of the Armored Force to manage all tanks in the U.S. Army. The "combat car" name was superfluous, and the cavalry unit tanks redesignated the M1 combat car as the "light tank M1A1" and the M2 combat car as the "light tank M1A2". [5] [4]