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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.
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 ...
Like other tanks and armored vehicles in Ukraine, the Abrams is facing challenges with the constant threat of drones, land mines, and anti-tank missiles, forcing it into an atypical role, but the ...
The upgrade was marketed at those M60 users with the industrial capability to convert the tanks themselves. The M60-2000/120S was a GDLS supplied conversion kit that married the turret of the M1A1 variant of the M1 Abrams to the M60A1 hull of the M60, offering many features of the M1A1 Abrams to existing M60 users at a reduced cost.
However, the US approved the possible sale of 108 Abrams tanks to Taiwan in 2019. CNA reported that in addition to the 38 tanks already delivered, 42 are due to arrive next year, and 28 in 2026.
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.
The M829 is an American armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot kinetic energy penetrator tank round.Modeling was done at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, [1] which was incorporated into the Army Research Laboratory in 1992.