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Nederlands: Model van een M1A2, een Amerikaanse M1 Abrams-tank met 'hunter-killer' commandantsgeschutskoepel en Tank Urban Survivability Kit (TUSK), een serie verbeteringen aan de Abrams gericht op de stadsoorlog.
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M1 Abrams Block III Tank Test Bed (M1 TTB) was a prototype built in 1983 as part of TACOM's Abrams Block III program (whose purview was to eventually create the M1A3), featuring an unmanned turret with a 44-caliber 120 mm M256 smoothbore gun, three crew members sitting side by side inside an armored capsule at the front of the hull and a suite ...
These armored systems — specifically the M1 Abrams tank and M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle — have hardened exteriors designed to keep their crews safe, but they are still vulnerable to ...
Gun mantlet, highlighted in red, mounted to a tank's main gun (American M1A1 Abrams). A gun mantlet is an armour plate or shield attached to an armoured fighting vehicle's gun, protecting the opening through which the weapon's barrel projects from the hull or turret armour and, in many cases, ensuring the vulnerable warhead of a loaded shell does not protrude past the vehicle's armour.
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In 1976, the army selected Chrysler's design for what would become the Abrams tank, and designated the Lima plant, operated by Chrysler, to initially build the tank. The army pressured Chrysler, in financial difficulty, to form a subsidiary, Chrysler Defense, to hold and protect the tank contract from potential bankruptcy proceedings.