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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 ...
M1 – The original variant. Eighty-nine built. [2] M1E2 – The prototype for the M1A1; M1A1 – A new octagonal turret instead of a D-shaped one; increased distance between the wheel bogies; constant mesh gears; 17 were built in 1938. [4] M1A1E1 – Prototype of the M2 combat car. The engine was replaced by a Guiberson T-1020 diesel.
The M1 can be equipped with mine plow and mine roller attachments if needed. The M1 chassis also serves as a basis for the Grizzly combat engineering vehicle and the M104 Wolverine heavy assault bridge. Over 8,800 M1 and M1A1 tanks have been produced at a cost of US$2.35–$4.30 million per unit, depending on the variant.
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 ...
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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.
After creating a full-sized mock up of this design using the T95E6 turret, it was dropped in favor of a design based on the M1 cupola of the M48A2's turret. This T9 cupola provided the commander with more headroom than the T6 cupola of the T95 tank, carrying a new short receiver M85/T175 .50 caliber machine gun [ 36 ] and it was standardized as ...
Daimler DZVR 21 / Sd.Kfz. 3 – interwar 4 wheel armoured car; Ehrhardt E-V/4 – World War I vehicle; Kfz 13 – interwar 4 wheel light armoured car; Leichter Panzerspähwagen – a series of light 4x4 armoured cars from Nazi Germany; Schwerer Panzerspähwagen – a family of 6x6 and 8x8 heavy armoured cars deployed by Nazi Germany