The REAL M1 Abrams! Chapter 2: Mobility (Part 2/4)

You saw in Part 1 just how valuable the M1's speed is --- but how does the M1's weight figure into it's overall Mobility? And what happens when they have to drive over bridges, through cities, or through less-than-perfect weather?

Watch this, and you'll learn things about the M1 that it's cheerleaders would prefer you didn't know...

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[TheCatholic143]

It depends on the model if you're talking about how much an Abrams weight. THe M1a2 Sep is the heaviest in the U.S miliatry arsenal.

[BlacktailDefense]

@TheCatholic143 That's true, but the 62-ton M1s are no longer restorable to an operable condition, and the 65-ton IPM1s have all been turned into M1A2 SEPs. That only leaves M1A1s and M1A2s, which in US service all weigh about 70 short tons, and the M1A2 SEP, which weighs about 72 short tons.

The only other operational tanks that rival this much weight are the 69-ton Challenger II, the 70-ton Leopard 2A7, and the 71-ton Merkava Mk.III and Mk.IV.

[franknbeans4761]

@BlacktailDefense "Even so, that doesn't guarantee the T-90 will win every time."

I wish you were more reasonable all the time, but then I guess some fanatics would try to take a yard when you gave them an inch.

[franknbeans4761]

@realIBeliX How so? The Apache is a proven system with most of it's "child diseases" worked out. At the Indian tender, the Apache beat the Mi-28N on 20 counts.

From what many have said, the Mi-28N has poor night time capabilities and that it still has a long way to go for it's sensors to mature. That and it's massive bulk severely limits it's performance.

[realIBeliX]

@BlacktailDefense Great, except, still, I am surprised that India bought Apaches instead Havocs.

[TheTokkin]

@MarshallJukov I fully agree.

[MarshallJukov]

@TheTokkin

Turbine T-80 is twice more expensive than diesel T-90 or diesel T-84.

And it gives no any significant advantages over diesel tanks, but delivering all the flaws turbine has.

There is no any reason to produce T-80

[beltar2]

@TheTokkin

In the shit of 1990s it's hard to tell if government was interested in tank factory. Uralvagonzavod survived because of India ~500 T-90 it produced for Russian Army is not enough. With all these tanks Russia has got from USSR and great reduction of the Army 2 factories is too much.

[TheTokkin]

The reason why Omsk tank factory is bankrupt is Russian governments decisions, so if the Russians would really have wanted to continue with the t80, they could have.

[beltar2]

@BlacktailDefense

7) I don't know how often American officials say bullshit but Russian officials do it often so fairy-tales like "T-80 sucked in Chechnya because of gas-turbine engine" must be checked at least twice.