One of fiscal year 2016's earmarks is a classic example of pork-barrel spending. It's $40 million to continue upgrading the M1 Abrams tank, and this has been an earmark for years. But the thing is ...

We then came across two Abrams tanks and its crews — a total ... I then jumped on top of the tank, straddling the gun to get a barrel view. The tankers weren't firing the guns that day, but ...

GDLS was the original developer of the M1 Abrams in the late 1970s and oversaw ... The new XM360 is sound, but the Army might want a slightly longer barrel for a minor velocity boost, an important ...

For tankers, naming their tank — and stenciling it on the barrel — is a rite of passage ... a former loader and gunner on an M1 Abrams tank crew. Earning the right to name their tank, Satoe ...

And among those troops is a very — how shall we put it — special M1 Abrams tank ready to do its ... which is terrifying knowing the barrel of a 120mm XM256 Smooth Bore Cannon may be aimed ...

The American M1 Abrams main battle tank was designed in ... Additionally, the T-72B3 can fire anti-tank missiles from the barrel of its gun. What the T-72 lacks in modernity, it makes up for ...

“They have us over a barrel,” a senior Biden administration ... But the package does not include M1 Abrams tanks, and it is unlikely that the US is going to provide them anytime soon because ...

At the rate of increase over FY 2017, Congress could set a new record for pork-barrel spending by the end ... for the continued upgrade of the M1 Abrams tank is an increase of 1,383 percent ...

Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) January 12, 2023 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 ...

One of the United States’ most advanced battle tanks has arrived in Ukraine, where the M1 Abrams is expected to be used in the country’s counteroffensive against Russia. The long-awaited ...

Russia claims a new missile gives its tanks a decisive advantage over Western tanks, the M1 Abrams in particular. The new missile can allegedly penetrate twice the armor of on the Abrams tank.