M1 Abrams Tank Gets New Round That Can Destroy Almost Anything Video

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Posted: 1/16/2021 8:32:51 AM EDT

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/m1-abrams-tank-gets-new-round-can-destroy-almost-anything

"The AMP adds an important new capability. The existing canister round is only for short-range use with a maximum reach of about 500 meters. This makes it useless for dealing with one of the biggest threats to tanks, infantry equipped with anti-tank guided missiles like the Russian-made AT-14 Kornet, used in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. When used in airburst mode, the AMP can target groups of personnel at ranges of up to 2,000 meters: even if it does not disable a missile team, the round is likely to distract them enough so that they are not able to keep a missile on course."

Another important new capability is breaching walls. Currently, making a breach an infantry assault requires engineers to get next to the wall and emplace explosives. Three rounds of AMP will create a thirty-by-fifty-inch hole clean through a double-thickness reinforced concrete wall, big enough for troops to advance through. This includes cutting through the steel reinforcement bars, and breaching can be carried out from several hundred meters away," said Forbes.

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More at link above^

XM1147 Advanced Multi Purpose AMP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U61Hrn1JZWQ

Posted: 1/16/2021 8:36:13 AM EDT

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Need the 12 gauge version.

Posted: 1/16/2021 8:39:25 AM EDT

[#2]

Neat.

Posted: 1/16/2021 8:42:00 AM EDT

[#3]

Cool, tungsten fragments.

Posted: 1/16/2021 8:49:35 AM EDT

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Need the 12 gauge version.

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Cool, tungsten fragments.

sooo, if one saved up enough ball point pen tips they could reload a 12 gauge shell with them?
yes, i'm joking

Posted: 1/16/2021 9:25:21 AM EDT

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I'm surprised that it would take three rounds to make a thirty by fifty hole.

Posted: 1/16/2021 9:30:37 AM EDT

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Weapons like these do no good against the main enemy of the republic, democrats.

Posted: 1/16/2021 9:31:29 AM EDT

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sooo, if one saved up enough ball point pen tips they could reload a 12 gauge shell with them?
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I am now a tank

https://www.targetsportsusa.com/hevi-shot-hevi-x-12-gauge-ammo-3-50-1-375-ounce-tungsten-bb-shot-50358-p-109871.aspx

Posted: 1/16/2021 9:55:40 AM EDT

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Just run over and hide behind the long end of the wall.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:00:26 AM EDT

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The concrete wall and bunker shots are cool

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:01:20 AM EDT

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They named in HEMP...more smokers of the devil's lettuce.

As if grunts needed any more ammo for dick jokes they name a round after a blunt...can you imagine the discussions in the tank?

"Sir positive hit"

"Negative gunner - Pass target another blunt"

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:10:02 AM EDT

[#11]

Index AMP fire Sabot!

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:10:30 AM EDT

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The first round penetrated and blew the fuck out of the inside, it's three rounds to make a man-sized hole.

Kharn

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:10:45 AM EDT

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What is that white light behind it?

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Posted: 1/16/2021 10:11:32 AM EDT

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nah, DC demonstration

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:15:53 AM EDT

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What is that white light behind it?

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/1147/in_flight_jpg-1781597.JPG

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All main gun rounds have them. Makes it easier to call where the round hit.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:16:08 AM EDT

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Tracer element.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:16:55 AM EDT

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The first round penetrated and blew the fuck out of the inside, it's three rounds to make a man-sized hole.

Kharn

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I'm surprised that it would take three rounds to make a thirty by fifty hole.

The first round penetrated and blew the fuck out of the inside, it's three rounds to make a man-sized hole.

Kharn

That first round makes it clear this isn't a break in and grab the secret documents sitting on the desk kind of operation

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:17:24 AM EDT

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What is that white light behind it?

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/1147/in_flight_jpg-1781597.JPG

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All main gun rounds have them. Makes it easier to call where the round hit.

Duh on my part, that makes perfect sense.

Thanks, did not know.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:19:17 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/16/2021 10:19:28 AM EDT

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Weapons like these do no good against the main enemy of the republic, democrats.

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Especially when they'll be determining who gets shot at.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:22:58 AM EDT

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Just in time to deploy against domestic white terrorists...

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:23:40 AM EDT

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Don’t be in the bunker

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:29:35 AM EDT

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Well of course not. But the Dems will use them against conservatives.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:33:18 AM EDT

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Looks like I need to update my earth and timber bunker design.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:35:35 AM EDT

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Tom Hanks could stop it with a sock before it got within range. Seen him do it.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:45:00 AM EDT

[#26]

Deep Foxholes just became way more relevant.

Posted: 1/16/2021 10:45:03 AM EDT

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(Sullivan Cup 2016, Ft. Benning)

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Posted: 1/16/2021 10:59:59 AM EDT

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And a mirror on a selfy stick. All the good anti tank gunners will be the dyslexic ones.

Posted: 1/16/2021 11:04:07 AM EDT

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That fireball from the tank barrel is worse that a 7" 5.56! How would they ever call a hit with that huge flash? Seems like they need a different propellant.

Posted: 1/16/2021 11:06:39 AM EDT

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Pfft, can't kill Chuck Norris.

Posted: 1/16/2021 1:13:36 PM EDT

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Especially, don't be in that bunker.

Posted: 1/16/2021 1:32:25 PM EDT

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looked too slow. a brisk walk could dodge that round

Posted: 1/16/2021 2:14:34 PM EDT

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I'm guessing you overlooked the schlieren.

Posted: 1/16/2021 2:31:01 PM EDT

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Supposed to (at least partially) replace the M830A1 MPAT round (which replaced the M830 HEAT round), the obstacle reducing M908 round, and the M1028 cannister round.

The main gun is getting upgrades too.

More info here

Posted: 1/16/2021 2:41:28 PM EDT

[#35]

Meh, its just teneride in a Nerf football..

Posted: 1/16/2021 2:42:26 PM EDT

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Problem is Kornet can hit from 4+km away while this can only counter thise 2km away.

Posted: 1/16/2021 2:42:40 PM EDT

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So it's a 3P in 120mm format?

About time.

Posted: 1/16/2021 2:45:29 PM EDT

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That things is mean. At least you wouldn't feel it.

Posted: 1/16/2021 3:12:16 PM EDT

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My first deployment we had tanks in Baghdad. We fired a lot of main gun rounds but only had access to sabot, cannister, and HEAT, with a sprinkling of MPATs. Can rounds were great for shredding a building right in front of you, but HEAT was really the only option we had for structures past a couple hundred meters and it sucked, as it was definitely not the right tool for that. Sabot and HEAT didn't really help us out much in the city. We always complained about a lack of HE options, but really near the end of our 15 month trip tanks and Bradleys were swapped out for MRAPs anyway. The only thing the Army got right implementing on the Abrams in a MOUT/COIN environment was finally adding a machine gun shield for the loader, which ironically were sitting in a dirt lot on our COP when I got hit with a frag grenade dropped off a 6 story building while I was in the loaders hatch of the lead vehicle in a movement through a downtown area. The damn thing airbursted right in front of my 240 and that shield would have eaten everything that hit me.

We worked with what we had though until then, we engaged quite a bit across the Tigris as the area on the other side in our battlespace was not secured by the coalition. Sometimes you would get lucky and the overpressure might blow a shitty roof off, or it might catch fire, but otherwise you just got a small hole and some splatter. Using it against walls was an absolute worthless endeavor. Essentially hard cover, machine guns, and shitty optics in the A1's were the only things the tanks brought to the fight. Once MRAPs started coming out in the next year with armor and better optics there was no reason to bring the tanks out anymore.

Cannister in the extent of it's MOUT usefulness