Finally! After 40 Years US Introduced Next Generation Tank

nothing lasts forever under the moon even old hard-headed Abrams as the U.S military fondly calls its main battle tank M1 Abrams just think its first production models came out of the factory Gates back in 1980. of course during those 40 odd years the tank was upgraded several times but those were cosmetic changes nothing fundamental in the vehicle except that the caliber Grew From 105 millimeters to 120 millimeters and during the same time for example Russians have made their t-80 tank four years earlier than Abrams managed to create a T90 Vladimir tank no that's not an honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin he was not yet the president of Russia at the time of its release in 1991 and then the teeth 14 Armada tank which is generally the tank of the next fourth generation this Russian challenge had to be met somehow moreover the tension in the world is only growing and no matter what they say the tank Remains the main tool for the seizure of territory true the American response as we see it was greatly delayed but it's nevertheless followed so meet the American Tank Abrams X while the general public can be content with in fact only a 15 second clip which showed the company General Dynamics the lead developer of the project the presentation of the tank will be held at the ausa 2022 exhibition which will be held in Washington from October 10th to the 12th but still there's something to be learned from this video and now our channel will tell you about this the first thing that catches your eye is the brand new turret with a lower profile now all modern Western tanks are you might say a head taller than Russian tanks but in this case being a head taller is not good but bad the probability to be detected in receiving a sub caliber shell in this very head increases so in ascending order American M1 Abrams A2 main tank 2375 millimeters English Challenger 2 main tank 2490 millimeters Israeli merkava mark IV main tank 2660 millimeters German Leopard 2a7 main tank 3180 millimeters and what about the Russian Vladimir its height is only 2230 millimeters Frankly Speaking we don't understand why the difference in height between the Russian and for example German tank is almost a meter are the Germans bigger than the Russians no the Russians are not Chinese or Vietnamese maybe Western designers decided to give more Comfort to their military the Russians don't care they're used to adversity but the tank is not the passenger car it's not the Comfort that's more important here but the survivability on the battlefield but let's get back to the new Abrams with the letter X what does the reduced height of the turret tell about one of two things either the designers decided to sacrifice comfort or they decided to make the Tank's turret uninhabited like the Russian T14 Armada tank all the same we hope that there'll be a second option in this case the protection of the tank crew increases dramatically they'll be located under the turret which will protect them with its entire thickness and it's possible to make an armored capsule for the men which can save them even in the case of an ammunition explosion after all for a tank the explosion of the ammunition is a hundred percent death of the crew on the internet you can find quite a few pictures of tanks with their turrets torn apart it's even frightening to think about what happened to people it became known that in the Abrams X the main caliber will remain the same the usual 120 millimeters but the gun will be changed judging by the video its Barrel is similar to the one used in the XM 360 Cannon previously it was tested for an armored vehicle XM 1202 under the now closed program FCS combat systems of the future the 120 millimeter XM 360 Cannon is created using new high-strength gun steel light Alloys titanium aluminum and carbon fiber reinforced plastic compared to the M1 Abrams Canon weighing more than 2500 pounds the XM 360 Cannon is 800 pounds lighter and weighs about 1700 pounds this cannon is said to provide the capability to engage targets at distances of 10 000 meters unmanned aerial vehicles are used for reconnaissance and Target designation the xm360 will have an automated loading system which will allow the tank to have a crew of three while at last otherwise it already becomes somehow embarrassing for the Western tank builders Russian tanks thanks to the automatic loader have a crew of three people when they started producing their t-64 tank and that was in 1972 half a century ago opponents of the automatic loader assert that without it the rate of fire in the tank is higher they say that with a trained loader the tank can fire the first three shots in 15 seconds while an automatic rifle will allow it to fire only two shots within the same time yes but during the long fire the advantage of the submachine gun is undoubted four shots per minute for Abrams versus 8 shots per minute for Russian t-72 especially when firing on the move and then no matter how cynical it sounds the explosion of the tank will kill only three people not four in addition to the 120 millimeter cannon the new Abrams will be armed with a 30 millimeter automatic gun and a 7.62 millimeter machine gun and like the German French Advanced EMB tank it'll be controlled remotely the 30 millimeter cannon will allow hitting lightly armored targets without using more expensive 120 millimeter projectiles and here we come back to another bottleneck of all Western tanks their masks it seems that their designers think that their products will fight only on the Red Square in Moscow otherwise how else to explain that as a result of upgrades the weight of Tanks is steadily growing for example the English Challenger 2 already weighs 62.5 tons the American Abrams 63 tons and the Israeli merkava an obscene 65 tons and the leopard 2a7 tank manufactures at the Euro Sanctuary 2022 exhibition behaved like women and were too embarrassed to report its exact weight in the promotional materials distributed there let's open the big in quotes sacred not all the bridges of the Russians can bear such weight or are Western designers suppose that their tanks will fight only in Europe moreover in Western Europe because in Poland Bulgaria and other countries of the former Warsaw Pact the bridges are the same as they were in the USSR and here are the roads in front of you which in Russia are far from uncommon at the same time the Russian T90 weighs only 46.5 tons and for him these roads in which the Abrams is floundering are almost like super highways but the big wave is also the need for a powerful engine to push those tons of metal Abrams has a gas turbine Honeywell EGT 1500 with 1500 horsepower but this herd of 1500 horsepower consumes 120 American gallons of fuel per 100 kilometers more than a gallon per kilometer by the way one of the most likely reasons why the Americans don't want to give their Abrams to Ukraine in its war against Russia is that the ukrainians simply can't provide them with that much fuel Western tank building is at a standstill right now tanks are big heavy and require a lot of fuel and for sure in the Abrams X tank American designers have put a lot of effort into reducing the combat weight which is becoming prohibitive on third generation Western tanks well how the whole undercarriage and powertrain compartment will change change we'll know in mid-october now we can only hope that this new Abrams X tank will be able to solve all the problems that have accumulated in Western tank building over the last decades by the way why General Dynamics is the main developer of the Abrams X Abrams was developed by Chrysler Corporation wasn't it the fact is that the Detroit Armory of the Chrysler Corporation the largest tank Building Company in the Western Hemisphere was closed for mothballing due to a lack of orders at the required volume in 1996. now tanks are produced at the Lima tank plant in Lima Ohio owned by the General Dynamics Corporation and this by the way is clear evidence of the crisis that's hit American Tank Manufacturing well we're left to wish Abram's ex good luck once again America needs it you agree with that write about it in your comments as usual don't forget to like And subscribe there are many interesting reviews ahead including once again about Abram's ex shortly after the exhibition there will be much more about it

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Length: 8min 53sec (533 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 08 2022