It’s been about 30 years since the Army welded a new Abrams tank, and it was going to be another decade until they built a new one, when the service sat down to hammer out the requirements for the ...
The M1 Abrams was developed in the 1970s for one primary reason: to defeat the new Soviet T-72, which had rendered the U.S. Army’s aging M60 “Patton” tank obsolete. -Chrysler won the $4.9 billion ...
The M1 Abrams is a formidable weapon of war that has been around for over four decades. In that time, the main battle tank has established itself as an enduring symbol of American military might on ...