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Why Has the M1 Abrams Tank Lasted So Long?

Despite the Abrams tank’s advanced age and increasing vulnerability to threats such as drones, it has been kept relevant on the modern battlefield by repeated upgrades.
FORT RILEY, Kan. -- There's more to making a piece of military hardware a display than parking it in a nice spot and walking away. Especially if it's lethal, which an M1 Abrams tank certainly is.
-The M1 Abrams emerged from the failed MBT-70/XM803 programs as a survivable, accurate, fast main battle tank with composite armor, blow-off ammunition storage, and a powerful turbine. -It dominated ...
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Intended to function as land ships with the firepower and mobility that could shatter the deadlock of trench warfare during World War I, the first tanks deployed in 1916 were massive, lumbering, and ...