“The Abrams Tank can no longer grow its capabilities without adding weight,” Army officials said when they ended the old SEPv4 upgrade path, a decision that set the M1E3 on a very different course.
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The unmanned turret gamble reshaping the next Abrams tank
The next Abrams is not being treated as a routine upgrade. It is being rebuilt around a harder question: what happens when the safest place for a tank crew is no longer inside the turret at all? That ...
Test units will soon start experimenting with early M1E3 prototypes, with the Army now hoping production could kick off in ...
Ukraine is upgrading M1A1 Abrams tanks with explosive reactive armor and anti-drone cages to counter FPV drones on the front ...
M1E3 Abrams tank early Prototype on display. - Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Army, cropped and resized, Public Domain. One of the most prominent recent examples of threats on the battlefield, of course, is ...
Despite the Abrams tank’s advanced age and increasing vulnerability to threats such as drones, it has been kept relevant on the modern battlefield by repeated upgrades. The United States military’s M1 ...
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