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Off-road: 25 mph (40 km/h)[9] The M1 Abrams(/ˈeɪbrəmz/)[10]is a third-generationAmerican main battle tankdesigned by Chrysler Defense(now General Dynamics Land Systems) and named for General Creighton Abrams. Conceived for modern armored ground warfare, it is one of the heaviest tanks in service at nearly 73.6 short tons(66.8 metric tons).
M104 Wolverine Heavy Assault Bridge from 59th Mobility Augmentation Company (MAC), 20th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army. The 2nd Engineer Battalion, 40th Mobility Augmentation Company, makes a bridge for the 3rd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment near Oro Grande Range, N.M., during Iron Focus. The M104 Wolverine "Heavy Assault Bridge" is United ...
To improve the lethality of the M1A2 main battle tank, the US Army funded the Advanced Tank Armament System (ATAS) research project to integrate a longer gun tube. [10] The long tube is based on the German Rh-120 L55 tube, made by Rheinmetall, and is 1.3 m longer than the conventional M256 120 mm gun tube.
The Army had planned to build prototypes by 2014 and to begin to field the first combat-ready M1A3s by 2017, but this never came to pass. Instead, the U.S. Army produced incremental improvements to the M1A2 in the system enhancement packages, culminating in the M1A2 SEPv3. The SEPv4 had begun testing when the program was cancelled.
M1129 mortar carrier (MC) M1130 command vehicle (CV) M1131 fire support vehicle (FSV) M1132 engineer squad vehicle (ESV) M1133 medical evacuation vehicle (MEV) M1134 anti-tank guided missile vehicle (ATGMV) M1135 nuclear, biological, chemical, reconnaissance vehicle (NBC RV) M113 armored personnel carrier – 6,000 [2][3] M58 Wolf.
M829. The M829 is an American armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) 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. The round is specifically designed for the 120 mm M256 main gun on ...
The M1074 Joint Assault Bridge System (JAB, JABS) is an American armored military engineering vehicle based on the Abrams M1 A1 main battle tank chassis. [ 8 ]: p.154 The M1074 was designed by Leonardo DRS for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps to provide deployable bridge capability for units engaged in military operations. [ 1 ]
The Manned Ground Vehicles (MGV) was a family of lighter and more transportable ground vehicles developed by Boeing and subcontractors BAE Systems and General Dynamics as part of the U.S. Army 's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. The MGV program was intended as a successor to the Stryker of the Interim Armored Vehicle program.