OOB 024 -- US Army -- M1A2 Abrams

[Epoletov_SPR]

The tank is accessible since 1993.
But the gun at it is established " 120mm M256 94 "!

[Marcello]

I think that weapon n. 247, OOB 12 is supposed to represent the M829A2 round. Some sources mention 1993 as adoption date.

[mr_clark]

Things like that happen all the time. The '79 Patton has the same -80 gun as the 1980 M1...

[Mobhack]

And a year or 2 is entirely irrelevant - the "years" are simply markers (strings) to make it easier to figure out which of the 999 different NATO 105's or Soviet 100's in the OOB the darned thing is meant to be closest to.

Andy

[Pats]

I was wondering if the article I found can be true.
Unfortunately it's in German.
http://www.wfg-gk.de/warum36.html
But to bring it to a point; it says the Abrams can't fire while moving because the gun-tube is to heavy (50% heavier then the Rheinmetal L44 or L55) so the stabilizer (NATO standard) is to weak.
Does anyone knows more about that?

[mr_clark]

What is indeed interesting is that is a rather new article (January 2006) and supposedly from DMZ which is a quite renown military technical magazine in Germany, so i'd rather say the article has some merit.

[Listy]

Pats said:
it says the Abrams can't fire while moving because the gun-tube is to heavy (50% heavier then the Rheinmetal L44 or L55) so the stabilizer (NATO standard) is to weak.
Does anyone knows more about that?

One, Two, Three, One!

Granted the Gun barrel isn't moving much in those vids.

[SGTGunn]

Hi,

As a former M1 Abrams crewman (I've been a driver, gunner and commander) I can state quite unequivocally that the Abrams has no difficulty accurately engaging moving targets while on the move. The current Tank Table VIII (M1 individual crew qualification table) includes engaging moving and evasive targets while on the move at ranges in excess of 1500m. For example - to score 100% on an engagement against a moving & evasive tank @ 1700m, a stationary APC at 1100m and moving troops at 500m - while the M1 is moving, the crew must engage and achieve a 1st round hits on all three targets in 8 seconds or less per target for M1A1 and 6 seconds or less per target with the M1A2 (obscuration time is deducted).

Now, I'm not saying that's easy - and certainly not every crew gets 100% on every engagement like this - but it happens ,and most crews can pull off 90%+ pretty regularly (8 & 11 seconds respectively). I've done it a few times myself - I've never shot a perfect table VIII (that's 10 different engagements each 100%)I've got a few in the 900s.

Adrian