The U.S. Army is still investing in tanks. In fact, it is requesting $723.5 million in its fiscal year 2026 budget to build and develop the next Abrams upgrade: the M1E3. That isn’t exactly what many ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Army has canceled its planned M1A2 SEPv4 tank upgrade, a program that would have pushed the Abrams to a "too heavy" 80 tons, after a damning Army Science Board report ...

Soldiers with the 1st Cavalry Division, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, will train with the new prototypes in the fall.

Key Points and Summary - The M1E3 Abrams is set to carry America’s heavy armor legacy into a new era, adding active protection, an autoloader and unmanned turret, hybrid power, weight reduction, and ...

The Army specifically requires the new tank series to be lighter in weight than its predecessors. As exemplified by Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, main battle tanks (MBTs) are not just military ...

The war in Ukraine has shown how vulnerable armored vehicles can be to attacks by cheap, expendable drones, threatening the tank’s century-long primacy on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine has shown ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has his "Arsenal of Freedom Tour" in full swing, visiting the nuclear submarine production floor at Newport News, Virginia, and Blue Origin’s space launch at Cape ...

The Army announced the completion of an Abrams tank prototype, known as the M1E3, this week on social media. (X) The Army announced the completion of an Abrams tank prototype, known as the M1E3, this ...

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. The United States military’s M1 ...