M1A2 Abrams

The United States' main battle tank — a heavily armoured, four-crew, 120 mm gas-turbine heavy tank whose latest SEPv3 standard adds the Trophy active-protection system, and which was supplied to Ukraine in 2023.

Overview

The M1A2 Abrams is the current production and service standard of the United States' M1 main battle tank, built by General Dynamics Land Systems and named after General Creighton Abrams. The headline variant, the M1A2 SEPv3 (System Enhancement Package version 3, briefly designated M1A2C), pairs the Abrams' signature 1,500 hp gas turbine and 120 mm smoothbore gun with a heavy composite-and-depleted-uranium armour array, a digital fire-control suite and — on fielded brigades — the Trophy hard-kill active-protection system. It is the armoured backbone of the US Army's heavy combined-arms brigades, the most widely exported Western heavy tank after the Leopard 2, and since 2023 a combatant in Ukraine.

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