My sources at General Dynamics tell me that the driver is the Soup Nazi from ‘Seinfeld’. Crime in NYC forced him to close his restaurant. So he had to find work in another field.
Posted on 10/09/2022 10:15:14 AM PDT by Redcitizen
General Dynamics Land Systems has officially unveiled its AbramsX future main battle tank concept in the flesh — or should we say in the steel.
Earlier this week we wrote up the latest on the feature-packed M1 Abrams evolution, but now we get to see the actual hardware ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army's big conference in Washington, D.C., this week
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TeslaGator has arrived...
Guess that means the new AbramsX is powered by one of them there high-BTU “Flame On” batteries. I hope GD has equipped this thing with a great fire-suppression system.
Uh-huh.
First time EVER.
Do they have one that runs on electricity? Asking for a friend.
“So, we shipping the old ones to U-crane?”
Nah.
The Taliban have first dibs.
How about field maintenance in adverse weather conditions?
If we could harness cow farts, we’d be undefeatable. /s
Flame Decals and racing stripes would have been better.
It needs a gap in its front grille and it will look like Georgia’s Abrams tank...
It’d be nice to have a tank that requires less than 2 fuel trucks to follow it around.
Gonna need a long extension cord instead of a M978 HEMTT.
Grow up.
I drove one of those fuel trucks, an M978 to fuel those tanks. They took a lot of diesel to top off.
Well, with an old fart running the s-it show we are nearly there.
Thanks for the link...
“a hybrid conventional-electric propulsion system has other potential benefits, including the ability to enable operations from static positions and potentially on the move, likely at low speeds over shorter distances, in a very quiet all-electric mode. This would help the vehicle’s crew avoid detection, and possibly gain the advantage over opponents, as well as save fuel.”
How much fuel does the Abrams consume at idle? - Quorahttps://www.quora.com › How-much-fuel-does-the-Abra...
Dec 4, 2021 · 1 answer
In the basic idle (750rpm) , the tank uses 10 gallons per hour, 30 gallons per hour in a tactical idle (1500 rpm), and 60 gallons per hour when traveling .
My sources at General Dynamics tell me that the driver is the Soup Nazi from ‘Seinfeld’. Crime in NYC forced him to close his restaurant. So he had to find work in another field.
I bet you spent lots of quality time at NTC. I was an OC in 98-99.
Has this concept been in development before Trump came in office?
It could be some sort of diesel-electric drivetrain like most locomotives. The fuel efficiency and power in diesel-electric locomotives has been proven for decades.
But the article is not clear on that.
Don’t drive it after midnight and don’t get it wet!
“ Back to diesel?”
I with diesel prices out of control, probably.
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