Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Army is set to develop a new variant of the M1 Abrams main battle tank, the M1E3, to address modern combat needs while keeping costs in check. -Instead of creating ...

The M1 Abrams is the current main battle tank of the U.S. military and has been in service since the early 1980s, but the first time it saw real combat was during First Gulf War in 1991. While a ...

The M1 Abrams tank, a heavy armor product of what is now General Dynamics Land Systems but was Chrysler Defense, was developed in the 1970s as a replacement for the Army's older M60 tanks.

The History of the Abrams Tank. The Abrams tank traces its lineage from a 1960s program between the U.S. and West Germany to produce a single replacement MBT for the M60 Patton and Leopard 1 vehicles.

A soldier scouts a wooded area on top of a camouflaged M1 Abrams at Fort Johnson, La., on March 16, 2024. (Pfc. Luciano Alcala/U.S. Army) The U.S. Army awarded the manufacturer of Abrams tanks a ...