I will need to reverify, however, I do believe the
M1 for the
USMC is correct and that I posted on the matter when I submitted the
M1A1HC FEP along with all the other
ABRAMS issues that "
popped up" for the last patch. But I do know
exactly where to go concerning the development of the
ABRAMS to also get the answer.
See Pg. 86 Post #857 for further info. The whole ABRAMS "MADNESS" started on Pg. 84/85 through 87/88.
Regards,
Pat
From
Pg. 6 of below Ref., but, simply put the
USMC started with the M1A1. I used the below Ref. in the
M1A1HC FEP submission.
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a608067.pdf
"II. BACKGROUND
The M1 series Main Battle Tank (MBT) is a key piece of equipment for the United States military in conducting offensive and defensive operations. The Army M1 MBT program dates back to the early 1970s with the XM1 tank and evolved into the M1A1 in the late 1980s with upgraded armor and 120 mm gun tube.
The USMC received its first units of M1A1 MBTs in 1989, and additional tanks were transferred to the USMC from the Army and Anniston Army Depot through 2008. The following sections of this background chapter describe the acquisition and development history of the M1A1 MBT, the role and force structure of the M1A1 MBT within the USMC, an overview of USMC ground equipment maintenance, the DOD maintenance policy, and the USMC M1A1 rebuild program.
"
To the name...In the
CORPS (
And Web.) and these are
interchangeable and
acceptable either
M1A1HC FEP or
M1A1 FEP. Everything lead to the
FEP and was
LONG planned for which is why I submitted and chose to use the
M1A1HC FEP nomenclature to represent the whole process as discussed next.
The difference is simply the "
HC" is used to denote the complete incremental upgrade process of the
USMC M1A1 tanks. The
FEP is
no different then the
USA having named their
M1A2 tanks
M1A2 SEP whatever version you wish to discuss until recently.
Difference between the two programs was that
USMC FEP was limited to a major upgrade to it's
FCS and supporting systems. The
USA SEP was all that but also included
CROWS, Armor, BFMS it etc. and is an ongoing Depot incremental improvement and will continue as such for many years there's already "chatter" about a "
SEP 5" if you will. And no need to worry as we're still waiting on
FOC of the "
SEP 3", besides the game will be ended (
2025.) before we see the next version after it.
Regards well, again,
Pat