Marines with the 4th tank battalion doing a amphibious training mission with M1 Abrams from a big Navy Hovercraft transport.
M1 Abrams is the US main battle tank third generation, manufactured in the United States . The vehicle is named after American General Creighton Abrams , former Chief of Staff of the US Army and Commander of US military forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972. The M1 Abrams tank is a well armed, with armored high mobility difficult and designed modern warfare. Among the notable features we can mention the use of a powerful gas turbine, the adoption of sophisticated composite armor and ammunition storage in a separate compartment of the crew, for better pro tection of the tank drivers. Weighing nearly 62 tons, M1 is among the heaviest main battle tanks.
M1 Abrams tank was entered in the US Army in 1980, the successor to the M60 . However, the tank has been used for over a decade alongside the improved M60A3 model which appeared in 1978. The M1 Abrams is currently the main battle tank of the Armed Forces and Marines US, the armies of Egypt , Kuwait , Saudi Arabia , Australia and Iraq (2010). The tank was designed to be used until 2050, with a life span of about 70 years.
