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Israeli Merkava III with a bustle rack. A bustle rack is a type of storage bin mounted on combat vehicles, usually on the sides and/or rear of the turret.These racks are used to carry extra gear and supplies for the vehicle in the field, as well as give the crew a place to store their belongings so that they don't take up the already cramped space inside the vehicle.
An XM1 Abrams, during a demonstration at Fort Knox, Kentucky in 1979. The M1 Abrams came from the diverted funds from the over budget and impractical MBT-70 and XM815 projects. Prototypes were delivered in 1976 by Chrysler Defense and General Motors armed with a license-built 105 mm rifled cannon. The Chrysler Defense design was selected for ...
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 ...
Since last year, the US has sent over 300 M2A2 Bradleys and 31 M1A1 Abrams variants to Ukraine, and Australia recently committed to sending nearly 50 more of the tanks.
For non-sequential numbers, like M1 Abrams, see bottom of list. M1 combat car, also known as the M1 light tank; M1 light motorcycle; M2 light tank, .5" MG or 37 mm gun, 11-ton
A gun turret protects the crew or mechanism of a weapon and at the same time lets the weapon be aimed and fired in many directions.. A turret is a rotating weapon platform, strictly one that crosses the armour of whatever it is mounted on with a structure called a barbette (on ships) or basket (on tanks) and has a protective structure on top (gunhouse).
The sale was completed in March 1982 for the revised figure of US$336.1 million and renamed General Dynamics Land Systems. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Under this newly formed division, General Dynamics would take over production of the M60 and M1 tanks for the United States Army.
Sierra Army Depot (SIAD) is a United States Army post and military equipment storage facility located near the unincorporated community of Herlong, California.It was built in 1942 as one of several ammunition storage facilities located far enough inland to be safe from Japanese attack, yet close enough to western military posts and ports to facilitate shipment of supplies. [2]