3/9/2024 0 Comments New main battle tank us![]() ![]() Whether the Australian Abrams will be fitted with the Trophy active protection system is not known. Improvements over the M1A1 AIM include enhanced mission systems and programmable rounds for the 120mm main gun, additional ballistic protection, a low-profile remotely-controlled weapons station, a new auxiliary power unit, a new vehicle health management system, and an improved forward-looking infrared (FLIR) sensor. The 73.6-ton M1A2 SEPv3 (Systems Enhancement Package version 3) Abrams entered service with the US Army in 2020. This entailed Army receiving up to 75 M1A1 SEPv3 Abrams tanks (replacing its current fleet of 59 earlier M1A1 AIM models) 29 M1150 Assault Breacher vehicles and 17 M1074 Joint Assault Bridge vehicles (which will provide new capabilities for the ADF) and six M88A2 Hercules Armoured Recovery vehicles joining the 13 already in service.ĭutton said at the time that the vehicles were expected to arrive in Australia from 2024 and achieve initial operational capability by 2025. ![]() The $3.5 billion procurement of new MBTs under Project Land 907 Phase 2 and Combat Engineering vehicles under Project Land 8160 Phase 1 was confirmed in January last year by then-Defence Minister Peter Dutton. ![]() No further comment was available on schedule, order composition, or the Abrams’ intended role following the restructuring of Army foreshadowed in the DSR. The sale was originally approved by the US State Department in April 2021. The DSR made no recommendations around the tanks other than – that part of the force structure of the Army is set. That is part of the Army's force structure into the future. This was confirmed on 28 April by Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy, standing beside Defence Minister Richard Marles at Sydney’s Garden Island Navy Base, where both were briefing journalists on the reshaping of defence innovation.ĪDM: “What’s happening regarding the Abrams main battle tanks ordered by the previous government in January 2022?”Ĭonroy: “The acquisition of that project is continuing. Army is still going to receive new main battle tanks (MBTs) potentially costing billions of dollars notwithstanding the number of Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) it had anticipated receiving being slashed from 450 to 129 in the Defence Strategic Review (DSR). ![]()
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