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AbramsX Next Generation Main Battle Tank Breaks Cover
MSN ^ | 10/09/2022 | Tyler Rogoway

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 ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: diaperjoestartsww3; joeblowspipelines; joejustblows; letsgobrandon; m1abrams; military; tank; treadhead
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To: ConservativeInPA; dfwgator

Great. Now I have to watch Stripes again. Excellent.


61 posted on 10/09/2022 12:06:33 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough” ~ Albert Einstein)
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To: sloanrb
It could be some sort of diesel-electric drivetrain like most locomotives.

DOD has been developing solid oxide fuel cell technology that runs on JP-8 since 2010 or earlier. The stated purpose has always been low maintenance, high efficiency gensets, but I recall some talk about testing it in APCs and such for electric drive power. The big problem then was dealing with the fuel cell's waste heat, not insignificant on the battlefield.

No telling what's under the hood now (or what might be slated for later production).

62 posted on 10/09/2022 12:08:29 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Redcitizen

Given how Presidementia XiJinBiden seems to be pushing for war, nuclear or otherwise, against Russia and seeing how he is draining the SPR, I sure hope they have HUNDREDS of prototypes that are ready to go! We (the West) is gonna need ‘em! Presidementia Joe BiteMe needs to be gagged before hs starts a war!


63 posted on 10/09/2022 12:18:47 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: TexasGator

Reactivate MegaForce.

https://youtu.be/cvK591moVVo

They had the dual mode turbine electric stuff plus the flying motorcycle.


64 posted on 10/09/2022 12:19:22 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: freedumb2003

Thought it might be a UA soldier, but he looks more like one of Kaderov’s troops fresh from Chechnya


65 posted on 10/09/2022 12:24:37 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Delta 21

how many maintenance man hours per hour now divided by three?


66 posted on 10/09/2022 12:25:12 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Redcitizen

a diesel/electric hybrid.

Environmentalists ecstatic! South Koreans laugh.


67 posted on 10/09/2022 12:25:53 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: sloanrb

The fuel efficiency and power in diesel-electric locomotives has been proven for decades.


Especially when those diesel-electric locomotives where sent into combat under adverse conditions and hostile fire.


68 posted on 10/09/2022 12:29:48 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Celerity

It could end up like some of those hybrid littoral combat ships that as soon as you shifted it into the alternative drive, the transmission broke.


69 posted on 10/09/2022 12:32:17 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Delta 21

Wonder how good the treads are in mud.


70 posted on 10/09/2022 12:34:27 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: freedumb2003

I guess it’s a step or two up from my old M-48? Not sure I could actually get in it tho?


71 posted on 10/09/2022 1:05:08 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: datura

Reminds me of a Prius. ** ducking **

I was at a local military museum on Friday looking over a WWII half-track. I told my brother that one of our neighbors when we were growing up had one in his garage. He never knew about it, but I had seen it before.


72 posted on 10/09/2022 1:16:08 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Chode

The original M-1 was 4x4 man hours maintenance to one hour on the move. This thing is so friggen hi-teck. No hatches on top, I wonder if everyone has to climb in the drivers hatch?


73 posted on 10/09/2022 1:19:36 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Redcitizen

This is the typical thing a weapons manufacturer does when a weapons platform reaches the end-of-the-road. They design and build a “concept” in a vain attempt to keep an assembly line open. See “Crusader III”, “F-14 Super Tomcat”, etc. Armored warfare is at a crossroad. There will still be something to fill the role of a “survivable direct-fire platform”, but it may not resemble what we call a ‘tank’.


74 posted on 10/09/2022 1:28:59 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Redcitizen

Anyone notice how badly Putin’s armor is doing in Ukraine?


75 posted on 10/09/2022 1:32:57 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Redcitizen

“Thats reducing the need for a Bradley and the loader’s Machine gun ( now that the loader is not there in this new concept).”

Not really. The Bradley or more specifically it’s replacement is still going to be in the picture armed with upto a 50mm cannon.

The M230 chain gun is there to engage targets at a greater range than that of the Ma Deuce. If it has the programmable rounds, they can airburst to take out drones.


76 posted on 10/09/2022 1:36:11 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: datura

when these first came out there was a vid of one doing tight figure 8s very fast while the turret was locked on to the camera. never have i seen anything more impressive...


77 posted on 10/09/2022 1:38:00 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: Redcitizen

Phew...thought you were talking about Stacey Abrams.


78 posted on 10/09/2022 1:41:29 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: TexasGator; Semper Vigilantis

<>Grow up<>

That’s become your standard response when you have nothing to contribute.


79 posted on 10/09/2022 1:44:33 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Delta 21

looks like two side by side


80 posted on 10/09/2022 1:48:14 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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