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From: nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo)
Subject: M1A2
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 00:53:58 GMT
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From: nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo)
>From: jumper@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham)
>christ@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Chris Thompson) writes:
>
>Actually I think CNN is getting thier tank designators wrong.  The new M1s 
>being sent are in fact M1A2s not the A1 variants.  Besides the 120mm main gun.....
[remainder deleted]

>Michael Lanham       mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu   &  jumper@.catt.ncsu.edu

M1A2s are not in production, yet. According to General Dynamics, the
first engineering development tank was completed in June 1990 with
ten prototypes to follow (information as of Sep '90).

--
Mark Aldo