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The Biden administration administration's plan to send Ukraine a battalion of lethal Abrams tanks will be hampered by the production timeframe and the Pentagon's insistence that it does not have any in surplus, the Defense Department revealed Thursday. Unlike some of the high-tech weaponry the U.S. has been shipping to Ukraine as part of a multi-billion effort to deter Russia's invasion, the U.S. military does not 'have these tanks available in excess in our U.S. stocks,' deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh' told reporters. The means it could take months before the tanks, which President Biden called the most capable...

President Trump’s dream of a celebration showing off America's military capabilities will become a reality on Thursday, as the president confirmed tanks will play a role in Washington, D.C.’s Fourth of July festivities -- and the vehicles were seen being hauled in on a freight train. An Associated Press photographer spotted the two M1A1 Abrams tanks, along with four other military vehicles, in a railyard at the southeastern edge of Washington. A military official earlier told the AP that the tanks were transported north from Fort Stewart in Georgia. This comes after the president said Monday: "We're going to have...

60 Abrams tanks on way THE Australian Defence Force is preparing to receive 60 US Abrams tanks, despite Howard Government claims it has made no decision to buy them. Military sources say they expect an imminent announcement on the purchase of the heavy-duty Abrams, which would give Australia a much-enhanced tank capability. The 60 Abrams - expected to cost about $600million - would replace the army's fleet of up to 100 Leopard tanks, which are 30 years old. The new tanks are expected to arrive in Australia within 12 months of the announcement. Up to 45 are expected to be...

http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/11/3/171841/084 The M1A1 Abrams tank is widely acknowledged to be the best tank in the world. It weighs just shy of 70 tons and much of that weight is armor to protect the vehicle and its crew. There are two main threats against a tank: HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) rounds and KE (Kinetic Energy) rounds. To greatly oversimplify, HEAT rounds produce a blob of super-hot molten metal that cuts through armor like a torch; KE rounds have long, slender dart-like projectiles that punch through armor like a bullet. The structural armor of the tank is designed to stop KE rounds...

US says nets Iraq guerrilla chiefs in Tikrit raids By Alastair Macdonald TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug 7 (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Saddam Hussein's home town said they seized three suspected guerrilla leaders on Thursday in overnight raids that included sealing off a street with tanks and briefly detaining dozens of men. One man arrested after 39 men were turned out of a workers hostel, handcuffed and questioned by soldiers in the street may have been a "national level fedayeen leader", funding and arming resistance to the U.S. occupation beyond Tikrit itself, raid commander Lieutenant Colonel Steve Russell said. The man...

"America's Stunning Victory"by J. R. Nyquist  It is now apparent that Iraq is on the verge of defeat. The threat to U.S. lines of communications has been countered. Any delays to America’s forward advance were therefore insignificant. At the same time, Iraqi forces were unable to launch an effective counterattack. As these words are written, Iraq’s best divisions are being shredded, the Iraqi people are turning against the regime of Saddam Hussein, and the prospect of a sudden Iraqi collapse is before us.If Saddam’s army collapses or surrenders in the next two or three weeks the war will be...

ALONG ROUTE 8, Iraq -- The crew and the tank nicknamed ''Hermes'' disappeared just after midnight last Tuesday. It vanished, it seemed, in the dust and darkness just ahead of Marine Capt. Brendan Rodden. In his tank immediately behind, Rodden didn't realize the Hermes was gone until his unit had traveled five more miles -- after the column of M1A1 Abrams tanks from the 1st Tank Battalion turned away from an unfinished bridge and skirted west along the Euphrates River. They probably just got disoriented, Rodden thought, maybe mixed up with another unit. It was easy enough to get lost...

For 20 years the Abrams tank has been the undisputed king of the battlefield. Over this time the tank has undergone several modifications. The 105 mm cannon was upgraded to 120mm. The armor was changed from Chobram to steel encased depleted uranium. After almost 20 years in operation, two Abrams have been disabled/destroyed in Iraq. Reports were that technicals using a Kornet AT-14 antitank weapon shot the Abrams in the rear, penetrating the tanks. The exact situation remains unknown. Some reports were that the missile penetrated the engine vents, while others stated that the engines were fine but the back...

<p>CENTRAL IRAQ — For a few long, terrifying minutes, Pfc. Adam Small faced every armor soldier’s nightmare: the prospect of burning to death while trapped in his own disabled tank.</p> <p>He was saved, like so many soldiers before him, by a couple of squared-away, quick-thinking NCOs.</p>

Army Times/Mansfield News Journal (Ohio) EAST BANK OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq - Two American M1A1 Abrams tanks were destroyed Tuesday by fire from what officers believe was an Iraqi truck-mounted anti-tank gun. It was the first time an Abrams has been destroyed by enemy fire in its 20-year history. But the Abrams preserved one important record: All eight crewmen survived without serious injury. No crew member has ever died in an Abrams because of enemy action. The two tanks were lost as the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment pushed to within 80 miles of Baghdad Tuesday...

<p>EAST BANK OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq (March 26, 2003) — A 3rd Infantry Division tank company team fought and destroyed an Iraqi Republican Guard force at point-blank range Tuesday night about 80 miles southwest of Baghdad. The firefight came near the end of a running, 30-hour series of shootouts that the Pentagon is describing as the largest battle of the war. Pentagon officials have put the number of Iraqi troops killed by the 3rd Infantry as anywhere from 150 to 650. No Americans were reported killed, although two Abrams tanks and a Bradley fighting vehicle were destroyed by enemy fire. The American soldiers accomplished this even in the midst of a swirling, blinding sandstorm that grounded its scout and attack helicopters.</p>

<p>EAST BANK OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER, Iraq — Capt. Clay Lyle's voice on the radio gave no hint of the violence that was about to erupt.</p> <p>"We're in contact," Lyle said calmly.</p> <p>The fighting began at 8:30 p.m. Monday local time (12:30 p.m. ET Monday) when about 200 Iraqi troops ambushed the 500-vehicle convoy at night along the western bank of the Euphrates.</p>