I'm agreeing with Charge_7 and Whispering Death, the M1 was made so that it could be only damaged and not totally destroyed, it takes 10 155mm rounds to have the turret destroyed. And from the comparison between the tank battles of 91' and the CQB-Unconventional combat today, the media doesn't gather infomation or research very well.
Besides like Death said 80's a small number for two years.
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If there's no other improvements being made to the abrams, it should be an anti mine set up. What i'm wondering is how the insurgents are getting these weapons to damage them, didn't we find most of the weapons stockpiles when we first invaded?
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Not insulting Warmachine but how are they going to anti-mine a tank? They can't put more armor on an A2 SEP, its weight would be to much, the A2 weighs a ton more then the A1 and it has an RPG net for the rear weighing two tons, so if you put on three more tons of armor to the bottom for anti-mine use you would putting more stress on the engine and have to refurbish the tank. But I'm guessing 2% of the M1's damaged where by mines. RPG can't penatrate or barly graze the armor on the chassis or turret they mostly ricochet, but the turbine is what gets hit.
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