Renegade334

@Renegade334
https://imgur.com/a/VS2RNex
 
 

https://www.gdls.com/ausa2023/
GD has designed an ARV for the Booker.

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2021/future/T-MES_Acquisition.pdf
https://www.gd-ots.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/C-DAEM_SMArtER155_202010.pdf
https://jpeoaa.army.mil/Project-Offices/PM-CAS/Organizations/Precision-Attack-Cannon-Munitions/Products/XM11208/
 

 
 

Now that I am looking lol.
 
https://sam.gov/opp/14e43ebc1fd4470fa9a1bcd1eada614f/view
 
 

The US Army is now looking for manufacturers for its tank-killing XM1180 Cannon-Delivered Area Effect Munition (C-DAEM) destined for use in ERCA guns.
 
https://sam.gov/opp/59459a7976b2440cbd64bd5d40d63a47/view
 
 

According to Nick Moran on tanknet, who had the chance to watch the actual conference video, the caption reads "M1E3-NG MBT".
 
However, there is also an asterisk at the bottom of the slide, introducing the following warning: "Digital designs not representative of prototype vehicles".

According to Nick Moran on tanknet, who had the chance to watch the actual conference video, the caption reads "M1E3-NG MBT".
 
However, there is also an asterisk at the bottom of the slide, introducing the following warning: "Digital designs not representative of prototype vehicles".

Turret looks narrower (unmanned + Trophy sponsons?), but I'd digest CADs like this (viewed at an angle, to boot) with a healthy dose of salt.
 
Holy crap. I've been trying to put a name and specific role on that black cylinder for ages.
 

Turret looks narrower (unmanned + Trophy sponsons?), but I'd digest CADs like this (viewed at an angle, to boot) with a healthy dose of salt.
 
Holy crap. I've been trying to put a name and specific role on that black cylinder for ages.
 

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2023/09/06/us-army-scraps-abrams-tank-upgrade-unveils-new-modernization-plan/
 
 
M1A2 SEPv4 canned in favour of M1A3 (type-classified M1E3). Sounds a like AbramsX in some areas. 

Bulgaria wants Stryker Dragoons and others:
ninety (90) XM1296 Infantry Carrier Vehicles – Dragoon (ICVD); seventeen (17) M1126 Infantry Carrier Vehicles (ICV); nine (9) M1132 Engineer Squad Vehicles (ESV); thirty-three (33) M1130 Command Vehicles (CV); twenty-four (24) M1133 Medical Evacuation Vehicles (MEV); ten (10) M1135 Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicles (NBCRV); five (5) Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) Light Equipment Transports (LET);  five (5) Modular Catastrophic Recovery Systems (MCRS); two (2) M1120A4 HEMTT Load Handling Systems;  five (5) M984A4 Wrecker HEMTTs; one hundred seven (107) M240 Coaxial 7.62mm machine guns. Also included is support service equipment:
M-153A4 Common Remote Operated Weapons Stations (CROWS); Forward Repair Systems (FRS); M2A1 .50 caliber machine guns; M6 smoke grenade launchers and associated spares; Harris radios; AN/VAS-5 Driver’s Vision Enhancer (DVE); DVE-Wide; communications equipment;  RS6 (LW30) Remote Weapon Systems; TACFLIR 280 HDEP systems; Ranger R20SS Radar; ROVER6Si transceivers; spare parts Sauce: Defense Security Cooperation Agency (dsca.mil)

ATAC System Demonstrator also know as Thumper, to receive the 140mm gun tube and a functional rearm port, 1992.

Warren Jones, right, project officer for the U.S. Army, instructs Oak Ridge National Laboratory staff on how an M1 Abrams tank operates in September 1992. From left are Dong-Soo Kwon, Carol Scott, Sam Meacham, Jim Hannah, and Katie Vandergriff.
Katie Vandergriff and Jim Hannah helped develop the ATAC System Demonstrator's rearm port, they also developed the Future Armor Rearm System (FARS). 
 


 
Compared to it's first appearance (1988), Thumper received weight simulators in the turret, they also changed the mudguards? Or the turret was assembled on another M1A1 chassis. The XM291 gun got removed from the turret to change the gun tube, from the 120mm L/56 (6.75m) gun tube, to the 140mm L/48 (6.75m) gun tube to test the FARS with the new two-piece ATAC 140-mm ammunition.
 
The ATAC System Demonstrator and the FARS are sitting together at Sierra Army Depot.
Location: 40.2051086922686, -120.13611546011911


ATAC System Demonstrator with the 140mm gun tube and the FARS.
 

A couple more pictures of AbramsX, from GDLS' account:
 
 

 
And from Rheinmetall's website, their XM30 Lynx offering:
 
 
 

Rheinmetall and GDLS got their XM30 prototype contracts.
 
https://www.rheinmetall.com/en/media/news-watch/news/2023/8/2023-08-07-american-rheinmetall-vehicles-awarded-contract-for-us-army-xm30-program

Curious. Aside from the empty RWS cradle, there is a PASEO missing and, in front of that empty ITV turret pedestal, there is an additional Trophy radar (for frontal, top attack coverage) that...wasn't there at AUSA.

Curious. Aside from the empty RWS cradle, there is a PASEO missing and, in front of that empty ITV turret pedestal, there is an additional Trophy radar (for frontal, top attack coverage) that...wasn't there at AUSA.

General Dynamics Land Systems Awarded $258 Million by U.S. Army for 26 Additional M10 Booker Combat Vehicles
July 6, 2023
>> Sauce <<
 
Also, here's an official CG of the M1A2 SEPv4, from one of GDLS' recruitment ads.
 

 
Some on Twitter have noted that the LFP seems to stick out by a tiny little bit, but I'm not sure it indicates increased plate thickness. It could simply be a flaw in the 3D model.

Curious. Aside from the empty RWS cradle, there is a PASEO missing and, in front of that empty ITV turret pedestal, there is an additional Trophy radar (for frontal, top attack coverage) that...wasn't there at AUSA.