The initial model was armed with a 105 mm M68A1 rifled gun, capable of firing a variety of ammunition types. In 1980, the M1 Abrams finally entered service marking a significant milestone in ...

Yet, the M2 Bradley also proved a highly capable war machine in the 1991 Gulf War, where it was credited with destroying more Iraqi tanks and other armored vehicles than the M1 Abrams main battle ...

Whereas the U.S. focuses its energies on producing a single main battle tank (the M1 Abrams), Europe produces seven, with each country prioritizing their own home-produced model. One of the authors of ...

Whereas the U.S. focuses its energies on producing a single main battle tank (the M1 Abrams), Europe produces seven, with each country prioritizing their own home-produced model. One of the ...

First introduced in 1980, the original M1 Abrams became iconic for its heavy armor ... and advanced suspension systems make it a model for what modern armor can achieve with discipline and strategic ...

Though technologically inferior to newer Western tanks like the American M1 Abrams, the T-72’s simplicity and volume ... into a targeted sector to stimulate rapid output. It’s a model that Western ...

Due to delays and shifting war dynamics, Australia’s pledged M1A1 tanks remain undelivered to Ukraine, even if they were there, doubts have circulated about their utility in a drone-dominated ...

(Pfc. Luciano Alcala/US Army) Instead of traipsing blindly through the byzantine labyrinth that is the regular defense acquisition process to modernize its nearly 40-year-old M1 Abrams tank ...

It was technically not a tank, Army officials insisted, even though it looked like a tank and performed a role much like that of the M1 Abrams tanks, which have long been the American military’s ...

Allen did 28 years in the National Guard. He was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and in charge of moving M1 Abrams tanks. Allen says he made sure the beans and bullets got to the guys who needed them to ...