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Not art official, it goes without saying. As for claims that the AbramsX's autoloader is smaller than Meggitt's CTA just based on pictures, I would take those with a grain of salt...unless you've been there in person with a measuring tape and came back with an interesting tale on how you bribed or blackmailed the GDLS guys into letting you climb onto the turret and engine deck.

BAE Archer on HEMTT:
 
 

BAE Archer on HEMTT:
 
 

Apparently, the AbramsX in AUSA 2022 might be reusing the hull of the Abrams used to showcase the Abrams Dieselization Project, back in AUSA 2013:
 
Referring to this, of course:
 
Minor detail: while the Protector R6 on the AbramsX showpiece doesn't have the coaxial M240, it does have the servo for the Javelin launcher. Not a guarantee there'll be tests of the sort, though.
 
 

I would use a spoiler tag if you have more than 2-3 tweets, mine was also a bit long.

AUSA opening ceremony is in six hours from now, but there's already a few fleeting glimpses of what's there:
 

AUSA opening ceremony is in six hours from now, but there's already a few fleeting glimpses of what's there:
 

AUSA opening ceremony is in six hours from now, but there's already a few fleeting glimpses of what's there:
 

Promo pictures enhanced through Photoshop:
 
 
EDIT - added three more.
 
At least two hatches for the driver compartment confirmed (with one open, the other closed), and possibly a third one right under the mantlet and XM360.
More detail on the turret front - the cheek plates are no longer welded together?
Coaxial 7.62mm retained.
Mantlet is smaller than I first thought - it's the front lip of the M230LF pedestal that's making it look taller/bigger.
At least one hatch on the turret's right side behind the PASEO and beside the M230LF pedestal. No periscopes on it.

Promo pictures enhanced through Photoshop:
 
 
EDIT - added three more.
 
At least two hatches for the driver compartment confirmed (with one open, the other closed), and possibly a third one right under the mantlet and XM360.
More detail on the turret front - the cheek plates are no longer welded together?
Coaxial 7.62mm retained.
Mantlet is smaller than I first thought - it's the front lip of the M230LF pedestal that's making it look taller/bigger.
At least one hatch on the turret's right side behind the PASEO and beside the M230LF pedestal. No periscopes on it.

Played a bit with layers and exclusion blending modes in Photoshop to enhance the pictures (YMMV depending on your screen's contrast and luminosity, of course).
 
 
Either they reduced the Next-Gen Abrams turret's height or that mantlet has overdosed on growth hormones (or they blew it up to better streamline it with the 20/30mm RWS' pedestal). And what ARE those things beneath the turret cheeks and what did they do to the mudflaps?
 
...That is, assuming that the 3D models are properly proportioned and detailed(for example, the Trophy launchers don't seem to have the shields to protect the crew when they're topside - omission or not? Seems to me like the commander and loader lost a bit of topside real estate there), of course.

Dunno if that has been posted here before, but the YouTube algorithm has struck again.
 
 
The APFSDS model wasn't specified, only that it is a 120mm sabot.
The failure seen here apparently stems from a destruction of the fin assembly, which also resulted in tip detachment from the long rod's main section.
 
 

Combat as seen through L3 Harris' Enhanced Night Vision Goggles - Binoculars (ENVG-B), which is gradually replacing the AN/PVS-14. The unit here is 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, going through a live-fire exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (WA), on April 19. View mode is "Outline Mode Fused + AR/RTA" (Augmented Reality/Rapid Target Acquisition). The ENVG-B reportedly allowed the wearers to engage targets twice farther away than with the PVS-14.
 
 

Combat as seen through L3 Harris' Enhanced Night Vision Goggles - Binoculars (ENVG-B), which is gradually replacing the AN/PVS-14. The unit here is 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, going through a live-fire exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (WA), on April 19. View mode is "Outline Mode Fused + AR/RTA" (Augmented Reality/Rapid Target Acquisition). The ENVG-B reportedly allowed the wearers to engage targets twice farther away than with the PVS-14.
 
 

That's a good question, and I'm not sure.  Per the spec sheet N-L-M posted, it is a solution hardening (which is the same thing as "age hardening;" metallurgical terminology is nonsense sometimes) alloy.  I bet that small titanium addition is what's doing the trick.  So the precipitation hardened part could be reset.  However, it also has a bit of carbon in it, unlike a lot of other maraging steels.
 
If you tried to "reset" the heat treatment, that carbon could cause some problems.  Some carbides form at higher temperatures than the intermetallic precipitates, and if the metal is hot enough that the carbon is mobile and can diffuse (basically, the hotter the alloy gets, the more random kinetic energy the carbon atoms have, and the more they can drift around), then the carbon may start to form larger and larger carbide inclusions through a process called Ostwald Ripening.
 
There's an ideal size of carbide or intermetallic inclusion particle size.  If they're too small, they don't do much of anything.  If they're too big, they tend to embrittle the steel because the carbides themselves are very hard but brittle.  If they're just right they tend to pin dislocations and prevent plastic deformation thereby.

While this is true, the solution heat treat is above that temperature, and everything should dissolve.
Forming the wrong precipitates is an issue if you age wrong or if you accidentally age via heat input such as welding later in the process.
 
welding itself is also an issue for precipitation hardened metals if done post-age as it remelts the HAZ had effectively solutionizes it, of course. This is what causes 6061, for example, to lose so much of its strength in the HAZ.