The Abrams (M1 Abrams) is an iron American battle tin can chariot to prepare people of non-Indian nationality for the democracy implementation program developed by the central ZOG kagal for the colonies of the Washington Regional Committee. It is in service with the United States, Australia, Egypt, Kuwait and other uncivilized backyards of humanity. Tsimes is that tanks outside the United States of America were bought with American loans allocated for the purchase of military equipment. A tricky plan!
The Abrams was the result of the fail of the first two programs to replace very cute, but still outdated Patton tanks. The citizens of the United States of America had not yet purchased a new batch of German gloomy geniuses, so the tank had to be made according to the classical scheme. Sharashki Chrysler and General Motors were engaged in the development, each made its own panzer. Both tanks were liked by the warriors, but the cunning Chrysler zhydy pasted a little more cast iron on the turret, as a result of which their tank won the competition.
Powerful gas turbine engine that accelerates the carcass up to 67 km / h. The only drawback is that in the desert or any dusty area, you need to clean the filters on time, otherwise the engine will sink into the trash in a matter of hours, and a new one costs like several diesel engines. If you clean it on time, only every second engine will stagger.
Hydromechanics (surprise) is stupidly inherited by the subject from the days of the diesel engine in the early stages of design, while the turbine does not need it.
Pindossian abrashs have depleted uranium elements in their frontal armor. It is not entirely clear if they help from more advanced shells than the Iraqi spears, that is, copies of the ancient, like shit mammoth, 3BM9, but it sounds very cool.
On the roof of the tower above the ammunition, knockout panels are provided, in the event of a fire, the panels fly out under pressure without going into a big badaboom, and the crew in the fighting compartment of the tank does not suffer. True, in Iraq it was SUDDENLY found out that the cunning knockout panels sometimes do not work, since the lazy American loaders, chewing a cheeseburger with potatoes and grinding all this with cola, often did not close special curtains-screens that cover them from ammunition.
Abrams' frontal armor parts are so severe that they do not penetrate a little less than nothing. However, the gaps between them have similar dimensions, and the BOPS ricochet from the VLD goes just into the gap of the tower. Fail, of course, is not in the ballistic hole itself (for they are present in almost all modern tanks), but in its size and location. The sides of the turret are also quite vulnerable, although sometimes they hold old RPG grenades. The armor of the stern, sides and roof of the hull is called by the teachers of military departments "armor of the x $ ynya type."
The absence of a "clean" HE shell reduces its effectiveness against infantry. It is compensated by the presence of HEAT shells and tungsten buckshot. The absence of guided projectiles in the ammunition load reduces the realistic combat distance to about one and a half kilometers (BOPS flies much farther, but only rarely hits a moving target) kilometers. However, Pendostan's tankers will eagerly tell you that each of them in Iraq shot a hundred T-72s from a dozen kilometers.
Manual loading In the 21st century, Niger Joe shoves projectiles into a cannon, while even the old stern T-64 has for more than 40 years a nanotechnological device called an automatic loader. And in the same direction are all other tanks of various uncivilized countries like France, Japan and South Korea, starting from the 90s, which seems to tell us. In response, xenopatriots, holding on to their butts, usually declare that this is not a bug, but a feature - it's just such a design philosophy.
Machine gun on the turret In racially loyal modern tanks (type T90), you can shoot a machine gun without getting out of the tank, using remote control. At Abram, in order to arrange a small shooting range, the shooter must open the hatch and pull out a little more than half of his carcass from the tower. Which is extremely conducive to the adoption of Islam. IChSKh, Pindossian tankers love and know how to shoot from a machine gun, but the designers have not mastered the human machine gun installation for this. On "Pattons" there was a sort of tower-on-tower half the size of the main one, but on Abrash decent defense for such a fool pulled 5-10 tons.
An auxiliary power unit was suspended from the rear of the turret of older models, vulnerable even to small arms. If she was defeated, burning fuel could spill out into the engine compartment, after which fucking was almost inevitable. And also the hydraulic drive of the tower on the abrash strives to kill the crew with fire in case of any damage.
"The driver's access to his workplace is carried out only through a hatch in the upper frontal armor plate (there is no emergency hatch in the bottom of the hull) with the turret turned backward."
Any questions?
Excellent tank Abrams.
The main thing is high-tech. Instead of an automatic loader, he has a black man who throws shots into the breech. Historically, missile firing is not provided for in it. And why the heck it is necessary. And it looks impressive. The tower is the size of a garden house.
The engine is great. Almost like the T80 - only better. The temperature of the outgoing gases is such that the IR GOS sees it from space.
The issue of insufficient power of the main engine for twisting a garden house with a cannon has been correctly resolved. An additional diesel engine is attached to the turret. So they usually strive to shoot him with a machine gun, which inevitably leads to the complete burnout of the entire tank. Another advantage is the "low price" and "good" manufacturability. Probably because practically no one is going to buy them, except for the US Army.
