Automatic loader and armor based on composites: in the us they talked about a promising version of the Abrams tank

Representatives of the US military command note that the US Army will not abandon the operation of the main combat tank Abrams. At the same time, it is indicated that by the end of this decade, the tank should undergo significant changes. According to General James McConville, deeply modernized Abrams tanks, primarily combat vehicles with increased maneuverability in comparison with the existing ones, will be accepted into service.

The American columnist Lauren Thompson notes that the main innovation that the military command relies on in terms of modernizing the Abrams tanks is the new generation onboard systems. This includes sensors that allow the crew to detect and identify long-range targets with great accuracy in virtually any weather conditions. Such sensors will allow tankers to identify targets through an aerosol curtain specially organized by the enemy, as well as in conditions of smoke or fog.

Such a system combines passive signals from two different infrared sensors, after which computer analysis of the data is carried out, and as a result, a high-resolution color image is formed.

Lauren Thompson notes that the next version (iteration) of the Abrams tank will receive a 360-degree situational awareness system, an automatic loader, a new generation of reactive armor and armor based on composites (composite materials). One of the tasks to be solved in this case is the task of reducing the weight of the "Abrams".

The US military command indicates that the latest versions of the Abrams tanks, including the M1A2SEP, have exceeded 63 tons. The promising version should be lighter by at least 4,5 tons.

Lauren Thompson believes that with an increase in the tank's maneuverability, he may have new customers. Among other potential customers of promising "Abrams" in the United States see the countries of the Indo-Pacific region.

Comments

[Dmitry Izmalkov]

How our school was ahead of them. We have had this AZ and DZ in particular for a long time, and they just came to this

[Alex_You]

DZ was the first they had, I don't know about AZ, but the projects were the same MBT-70, there was simply no need. The problem is in the projectile, the M823A4 is the pinnacle of increasing armor penetration without replacing the gun, no matter how.

[hrych]

Instead of AZ, they had a specially trained African American. Now LGBT, tfu ... BLM - the outbreak forbids, you will have to make an aphrodroid.

[Dmitry Izmalkov]

For them (Tusck), it is rather an auxiliary in urban battles, and only for the Sov. schools DZ is one of the leading factors of protection

[Old tanker]

The first DZ appeared in the USSR, but Marshal Grechko (at that time the Minister of Defense) categorically forbade “sticking explosives around the tanks.” But the Jews took advantage of our idea and installed DZ Blazer on their M-48s. -one".

[Thrifty]

It looks like they will have it in service for another half century for sure, but won't the stocks of tank hulls run out over the years? And where and on what will new ones then be assembled, if the only tank-building plant has been liquidated?

[Old tanker]

They have, by and large, liquidated the tank-building school. Gives birth so far only miscarriages. And in reality, except for the M-1, they have nothing to rely on.
They have the same thing with the nuclear industry.

[73bor]

As the latest modernization shows, the M1A2C does not smell like relief there, the mass of the tank approached 68 tons, they added more armor and how they are going to relieve it is completely incomprehensible !!

[Atlas]

How many times have I read about "the only tank plant is closed." Stop writing nonsense, a country with such an economy and industry, with such finances, will restore the plant in six months maximum. This is not a country of the 3rd world, but the first economy in the world, or the second, it does not matter.

[Zaurbek]

In what they are really ahead - they originally created a "cart with 7 rollers" unified it ... and have been using it for 50 years ...

[Guardian of the walls]

Will they leave the Israeli KAZ?

[Dmitry Izmalkov]

What else?
The maximum will be renamed, such as Hk416 ------- M27

[Popandos]

automatic loader

What about the BLM movement? Where to employ the loader?

[tralflot1832]

Here, on the contrary, BLM won, the holy of holies of the Negro loader was removed, to whom the crew will now kiss before the shot "burnouts". Do not worry about the blacks, they will retire with a pension of $ 100500.

[Old tanker]

There is still noge-drivers for autopilot replace

[El Chuvachino]

Innovation!

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Targets and stuff will be seen at a great distance. 1000 km? Two tyshy? And in Buryatia he will be able to see? It's a pity, the article is not specified.

[El Chuvachino]

China will get it.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Wow! What a big-eyed Aram!

[Artemion3]

Quote: Popandos

automatic loader

What about the BLM movement? Where to employ the loader?

They usually go to the navy, to coca)

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Just anem with grasp items will be renamed to the machine!

[Popandos]

Have Americans finally read the memoirs of German tank crews?
The fact that a heavy tank is not a mobile armored vehicle outside the roads.

[Evil troll]

I wonder how they will fit the automatic loader and reduce the weight at the same time. It looks like they decided to cut down the armor, it still breaks through.

[loki565]

I wonder how they will fit the automatic loader and reduce the weight at the same time. It looks like they decided to cut down the armor, it still breaks through.

Well, back in the 90s they had interesting developments, they will probably put a turret version, it is safer.

[Albert1988]

Quote: Angry Troll

I wonder how they will fit the automatic loader and reduce the weight at the same time. It looks like they decided to cut down the armor, it still breaks through.

It has long been rumored that the Americans want to nafig throw off all this thick armor (leave a maximum of 400 mm equivalent) and focus on the KAZ.

[alex aircraft]

Our automatic loader was already on t64, and the Yankees are only now thinking of putting it on ... however ...

[Guardian of the walls]

So, because of the automatic loader T-72, they burned like candles in Chechnya and Syria ...

[family tree]

Burned, due to the fact that the infantry was not nearby, communications and dryers twenty-fifths from above.
For the Czechs, a separate conversation with the command.
There would be no matches, and the house would not burn down

[Ramzaj99]

Quote: Guardian of the Walls

T-72 and burned in Chechnya and Syria like candles ...

In Chechnya, it was the stupidity and crime of the command. If the Abrams were driven there in the same way, they would have burned out in the same way. How the Turkish Leopards burned down in Syria.
In Syria, the upgraded T-72s burn no more than the Abrams in Iraq and the Abrams of the Emirates at the hands of the Kurds. The T-90, as shown by Syria, generally holds the new TOU-2 and the AZ does not interfere with this in any way.

[Albert1988]

Quote: Guardian of the Walls

So, because of the automatic loader T-72, they burned like candles in Chechnya and Syria ...

In Chechnya, T-80s were burning, which were sent to the city without cover and with filled traveling fuel tanks ...
T-72s in Chechnya, for example, sometimes received 12-15 direct hits from RPGs, even with penetrations, and remained unaffected. And the secret is simple - there is no need to carry shells in the hull outside special internal containers and the same AZ,
From that, the Iraqis switched to the T-90, that it is impossible for it to get into the BC so easily in an open field (almost at the bottom level), unlike Abrashi (when 40 land mines explode in the tower - no knockout panels and an armored partition save the crew from transforming into a barbecue)

[Bradley]

Lauren Thompson notes that the next version (iteration) of the Abrams tank will receive a 360-degree situational awareness system. automatic loader, dynamic protection of a new generation and armor based on composites (composite materials). One of the tasks to be solved in this case is the task of reducing the weight of the "Abrams".

And where to shove AZ? To the tower? But all the shots are already taken there. To the fighting compartment? Well then, goodbye to high survivability and survivability. New tower? Most probably.

[Albert1988]

Quote: Bradley

And where to shove AZ? To the tower? But all the shots are already taken there. To the fighting compartment? Well then, goodbye to high survivability and survivability. New tower? Most probably.

Most likely they will do it like a leclerk.

[Bradley]

Most likely they will do it like a leclerk.

Many shots will gobble up, but as an option - quite.

[Albert1988]

Quote: Bradley

Many shots will gobble up, but as an option - quite.

How to say - in the conditions of modern combat, especially one that is usually waged by the Americans, much is not necessary ...

[Bradley]

How to say - in the conditions of modern combat, especially one that is usually waged by the Americans, much is not necessary ...

Don't need now, the day after tomorrow? Everything is relative.

[Albert1988]

Quote: Bradley

Don't need now, the day after tomorrow? Everything is relative.

And after tomorrow the Americans will come up with another "modernization" for "current needs", there is a lot of money and they know how to cut it)))

[Bradley]

And after tomorrow the Americans will come up with another "modernization" for "current needs", there is a lot of money and they know how to cut it)))

Well, then we'll see the day after tomorrow.)

[501 Legion]

machine is their new know-how, funny

[Albert1988]

Quote: 501Legion

machine is their new know-how, funny

It's just that the weight is a little tight - the machine gun is minus one crew member, minus the corresponding reserve space. But for all these innovations, you will still have to change the tower. Or process it very hard with a very large file ...

[Prisoner]

Well, what are the prospects for an abrashka ?!

[K-50]

the next version (iteration) of the Abrams tank will receive a 360-degree situational awareness system, automatic loader etc.

What in Pin Dos Seia enemy end?
Or did the LBM decide to bend over? Like how the can recently fell on his knees in front of the negro?

[Artemion3]

Quote: Thrifty

And where and on what will new ones then be assembled, if the only tank-building plant has been liquidated?

Yes, it's not clear where, maybe in China under a license)

[Real Pilot]

Quote: Artemion3

Quote: Popandos

automatic loader

What about the BLM movement? Where to employ the loader?

They usually go to the navy, to coca)

Coca? Well yes, that's right ... Big Black Cock is short for BBC.
And in Russian, this abbreviation BCHC is a big black member (of the crew of an American battle tank, of course!)

[Goldmoskit]

In order to achieve a reduction in the weight of the machine when replacing the loader at the AZ, they will have to develop a new tower in smaller dimensions with an internal re-arrangement of equipment. Consider it will cost at least half the cost of the tank, if not more.

[Albert1988]

Quote: GoldMoskit

In order to achieve a reduction in the weight of the machine when replacing the loader at the AZ, they will have to develop a new tower in smaller dimensions with an internal re-arrangement of equipment. Consider it will cost at least half the cost of the tank, if not more.

Moreover - judging by some "rumors" they want to give up their favorite thick uranium armor! And replace it with a lightweight composite, while the resistance will have to be reduced from 800 mm equivalent to 400-500 millimeters, and the main protection will be provided by KAZ. We've seen enough of the T-14, not otherwise)))

[Goldmoskit]

Perhaps, because they did not go to the fortuneteller, they analyzed the design of the T-14

[Albert1988]

Quote: GoldMoskit

Perhaps, because they did not go to the fortuneteller, they analyzed the design of the T-14

Yes, and they have interesting developments - you can google it, their projects for new MBT flashed not so long ago - finding 10 differences from the T-14 is an impossible task)))

[spectr]

Probably after these improvements, the cost of the Abrams will be equal to the F-35. And keeping the whole set of sensors in working order is still a pleasure.

[riwas]

Our team created a new defense against anti-tank missiles for the T-72B3 tank, which was demonstrated at the Kadamovsky training ground in the Rostov region. The new protective device installed in the upper part of the tower looks like a canopy, for which it received the unofficial name among tankers - "sun shade".
However, as reported to "RG" in the military department, the design is designed to enhance protection against anti-tank missiles and ammunition of a new generation. As you know, modern anti-tank systems, including the American Javelin, are developed with the expectation that the missile hits the most vulnerable parts of armored vehicles. One of these places is the upper projection of the tank turret.

[Igor Ushakov]

It looks like this is an old, kind, known from the Second World War, a protective shield against HEAT shells. Only against the power of modern cumulative ammunition, the effectiveness is questionable, especially given the small thickness of the upper projection armor.
And what is this pipe behind the tower?

[Albert1988]

Quote: Igor Ushakov

Only against the power of modern cumulative ammunition is the effectiveness of questionable

Don't tell me - against modern cumulative anti-tank missiles - that's it.

[Igor Ushakov]

Don't tell me - against modern cumulative anti-tank missiles - that's it.

how does it work? As far as I know, the screens on the sides give not the most reliable protection even from relatively weak RPGs, and modern missiles have a much more powerful cumulative jet.
Or is it a masking of a thermal profile?

[Albert1988]

Quote: Igor Ushakov

how does it work?

It works ridiculously simple - the grille is made of wide strips of metal with a slightly wedge-shaped section and a certain pitch. They are, of course, made of good steel. When a cumulative head collides with such a grid, it simply cuts it into small "slices". Moreover, the farther from the case the screen, the more effective. In this case, it will help from the javelin completely.

[Zlyden.Zlo]

They can't get away from deep modernization, but how much money they can get for it))))))))