Watch US Marines, Tank M1 Abrams Amphibious. A big Navy Hovercraft transport.onlin<br />Marines with the 4th tank battalion doing a amphibious training mission with M1 Abrams from a big Navy Hovercraft transport.<br /><br />M1 Abrams is the US main battle tank third generation, manufactured in the United States . The vehicle is named after American General Creighton Abrams , former Chief of Staff of the US Army and Commander of US military forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972. The M1 Abrams tank is a well armed, with armored high mobility difficult and designed modern warfare. Among the notable features we can mention the use of a powerful gas turbine, the adoption of sophisticated composite armor and ammunition storage in a separate compartment of the crew, for better protection of the tank drivers. Weighing nearly 62 tons, M1 is among the heaviest main battle tanks.<br /><br />M1 Abrams tank was entered in the US Army in 1980, the successor to the M60 . However, the tank has been used for over a decade alongside the improved M60A3 model which appeared in 1978. The M1 Abrams is currently the main battle tank of the Armed Forces and Marines US, the armies of Egypt , Kuwait , Saudi Arabia , Australia and Iraq (2010). The tank was designed to be used until 2050, with a life span of about 70 years.
