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From: consp21@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Ken Hoover)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Tanks in the Persian Gulf Crisis--The M1 Abrams
Summary: filling in the holes...
Keywords: tanks, facts, figures
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.024642.21045@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 02:46:42 GMT
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From: consp21@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Ken Hoover)

In article <1990Sep14.042819.1844@cbnews.att.com> jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) writes:
>M1 and M1A1 Abrams 
>	Performance:
>		Maximum road range: 300 miles.
>		Maximum speed: 45 mi/hr.

  It is noted in Tom Clancy's _Red Storm Rising_ that the governor
limiting the tank to that 45 mph speed is one of the first things
removed by the tank crews when they get assigned to a tank; producing
a new top speed  of about 60 mph (!).  Can anyone verify this?

>	Armor:
>		Most details appear to be classified. The armor seems to be
>		similar to Chobham armor developed in UK...

  Is this the armor that is made up of alternating layers and gaps of
metal to break up the plasma from an exploting HEAT round or fragment
an incoming solid-core round?

>		Some of the TV news footage from Saudi Arabia shows M1s with
>		what appears to be applique armor strapped to the sides of
>		the main turret.

  Reactive armor?  I heard that Isreal (and the USSR) are ahead of us
on this one.  Might it be being deployed now on US armor?

					- Ken Hoover

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