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The early production versions of the M1 Abrams (M1 & IPM1) were armed with the M68A1 [45] for two reasons. First was due to the large number of M60 tanks with the M68E1 gun still in widespread US service in the 1980s and a large on-hand stockpile of 105 mm munitions.
M1 Abrams tanks being refurbished at the Anniston Army Depot in 1989. A number of considerations had led the service and its contractors to favor the Army's standard M68 105 mm gun over Germany's 120 mm Rheinmetall Rh-120 smoothbore gun for the XM1. To begin with, the 105 mm gun was "the smallest, lightest, and least costly gun adequate for the ...
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.
The first M1 tank was manufactured by American armoured vehicle manufacturer General Dynamics Land Systems in 1978 and was first delivered to the US Army in 1980. Each model costs around $10m to ...
In February 1980, the first M1 Abrams rolled out of LATP. After a contract the plant began producing the Abrams at a rate of 30 a month. Chrysler subsequently sold the Defense subsidiary to General Dynamics in 1982. [3] In January 1985, the last M1 rolled off the assembly line, and in October, production began on the improved M1 (IPM1).
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