The Army Science Board, a federally-sanctioned independent group of experts that advises the Secretary of the Army, recently published an assessment about the future of the M1 tank. It also outlines ...

The M1 has already been in service since the 1980s and may become the first MBT (main battle tank) design to stay in service for half a century. Technically, some World War II tanks achieved that ...

Key Point: The math for the M1 Abrams is simple: the tank is now too old to keep getting upgrade after upgrade. Still, the tank has had an incredible military career. The M1 Abrams is considered by ...

From the outside, the M1 Abrams battle tank looks like a bit of a behemoth, and statistics confirm this — the M1A2 variant of the type weighs in at 67 tons, is just under 32 feet long, and is over 12 ...

Intended to function as land ships with the firepower and mobility that could shatter the deadlock of trench warfare during World War I, the first tanks deployed in 1916 were massive, lumbering, and ...

More than 20 years ago, Jere Gish got a unique opportunity to get inside an M1 Abrams tank. What followed was a profile of the impressive machine and a hard-charging, followed by a hard-braking, ...

Ukrainian officials have commended the M1 Abrams tank’s resilience on the battlefield. When it comes to tank lethality, the American-made Abrams family of armored vehicles arguably takes the cake. The ...

The Abrams fires a high-explosive anti-tank round and a powerful depleted uranium shell. The high-explosive obstacle reduction round is for destroying light armored vehicles and bunkers. The canister ...