American M1A2 Abrams tank demonstrates its ability to overcome water obstacles

Footage has been published online that captures the moment the American overcame a tank M1A2 Abrams small water obstacle. In the footage you can see an American tank crossing the river, while plunging into the water almost up to its tower.

To overcome water obstacles, American armored vehicles, unlike, for example, Russian BMP-2 or BTR-90, must undergo certain training. In particular, the American M1A2 Abrams tank needs to be equipped with a special kit to overcome small water obstacles, including flaps, rubber seals for the gun embrasure, a pump for pumping water out of the crew compartment, as well as air supply pipes and various sealing covers. In addition, the crew is equipped with life jackets and insulating gas masks for breathing under water in case of flooding.

A set of removable and non-removable equipment installed on the American M1A2 Abrams tank allows you to overcome bodies of water up to 5 meters deep and up to one kilometer wide. These restrictions are due to the fact that at greater depths it is impossible to ensure sufficient pressure from the mass of the tank on the ground of the reservoir, which will inevitably lead to a lack of adhesion of the tracks to the ground, as a result of which the tank will be unable to move forward, and in a strong current the vehicle may even be carried away in a different direction .

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[Smoked]

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[credo]

Apparently the bottom of the river is rocky and quite dense, since it is not visible that the silt rises behind the tank.
Apparently they filmed somewhere on the American prairies.
In the Ukrainian expanses, American “Abrams” are unlikely to find such rivers, so they will have to build pontoons in Little Russia, if, of course, they reach it.

[75 Sergey]

Holy shit! Right up to the tower! Well, of course, it’s not like our “bast shoes”.

[alekc75]

crossed a large stream and it was already a victory - the ground was rather rocky! there was land with sand - he was ruined!

[Byurer]

“To overcome water obstacles, American armored vehicles, unlike, for example, Russian BMP-2 or BTR-90, must undergo certain training”...
This is a tank!!! And our tanks must undergo certain training))) By the way, the above-mentioned infantry fighting vehicles with armored personnel carriers, too, oddly enough, undergo training to overcome water obstacles. Unnamed author of "peshi ischo"

[Bad_gr]

Quote: Burer

And our tanks must undergo certain training)))....

Unlike Abrams, ours always have all the equipment for underwater driving of a tank with them, and not somewhere in a warehouse. If a command is received, then our crew will prepare the tank for underwater driving in a matter of a few minutes: checking the presence of all hatches, the grilles over the radiators are closed with lids, the air supply pipe, the valves for the exhaust pipe (t62-72-90), the turret ring is tightened - and off we go. It is advisable to lubricate the seams of the hatches with grease, but if the water barrier is of short length, then it will pass just fine (every tank is equipped with a standard bilge pump).

[SkyMaXX]

Well, this is the kind of ford that any tank can pass through. There is nothing to be surprised

[tank64rus]

And this is crossing the river with a tank. Our tankers are in shock. No underwater driving at a depth of 5 meters. Yes, it’s rare that Abrams will reach the middle of the Dnieper. We are looking forward to practice in Ukraine.

[pettabyte]

You have to understand that their THIS_NOT_MOUSE_THIS-OTHER thing is not every bridge that can withstand it.
Well, so that on paper it wouldn’t be a problem, they did it this way.
They did it very crookedly, they tested it as they usually like - on a concrete/dense rocky riverbed.