MBT-70 (German: Kampfpanzer 70)
General Motors XM1 prototype
M1 Abrams tank being inspected upon assembly at the Chrysler Lima Army Tank Plant, 1979.
An XM1 pilot during trials in 1979
Early production vehicle in 1983
M1 Abrams tanks being refurbished at the Anniston Army Depot in 1989
Abrams tanks move out on a mission during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. A Bradley IFV and a logistics convoy can be seen in the background.
A destroyed M1A1, hit in the rear grill by a Hellfire missile and penetrated by a sabot tank round from the left side to right (see exit hole) in Operation Desert Storm, 1991.
M1A1 tank beside the burning compound of the Waco Siege
A U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams fires its main gun into a building during the Second Battle of Fallujah , 2004.
Two U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams in Iraq, 2005
M1A1M Abrams tanks in Iraqi service, January 2011
A M1A1 Abrams on patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2012
A destroyed US-supplied M1A1 SA-UKR Abrams in Ukrainian service on display at Moscow's Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill , 2024
An M1 Abrams hull undergoing work on the suspension system at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio, 2021.
U.S. M1A1s during the Foal Eagle 1998 training exercises in South Korea, with their factory single green paint scheme
Tankers drive an M1A1 Abrams through the Taunus Mountains north of Frankfurt , Germany during Exercise Ready Crucible in February 2005.
U.S. Marines with the 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division , advance on their eastern objective defended by opposing Spanish forces during Exercise Trident Juncture 18 near Dalholen, Norway , 3 November 2018.
A U.S. Army M1A1 with M32 tiles mounted on top of M19 reactive armor tiles in 2017
An M1A1 Abrams with an Abrams Integrated Management System (AIM) and the Tank Urban Survivability Kit (TUSK) conducting a patrol in Baghdad, 2007.
The Trophy Active Protection System (APS) was installed and tested on a USMC M1A1 Abrams in 2017.
105 mm APFSDS rounds being laid out in Operation Desert Shield, 1991.
An M1A1 firing its main gun as seen from the loader's hatch in joint exercises with the French Foreign Legion .
A commander (left) and loader man their 12.7 mm M2HB and 7.62 mm M240 machine guns of their 105 mm-armed M1 in 1981
View through an M1A2 Abrams' thermal optic
A soldier assisting in the critical job of "boresighting" the alignment of all the tank's sights to the center of the axis of the bore of the main gun on an M1A1 Abrams in Mosul , Iraq, in January 2005 [ nb 2 ]
Abrams Integrated Display and Targeting System (AIDATS) on a USMC M1A1
Marines from 1st Tank Battalion load a Honeywell AGT1500 multifuel turbine back into a tank at Camp Coyote, Kuwait, February 2003.
An American M1A1 fitted with an external auxiliary power unit in Operation Desert Storm
A U.S. Marine M1A1 fitted with snorkel attachment and bustle rack extension
82nd Airborne paratroopers ride on an M1A2 Abrams by tank desant .
A U.S. Army M1A1 after being offloaded from a U.S. Air Force C-17 at Balad Air Base , Iraq in 2004
A Marine M1A1 offloading from a Landing Craft Air Cushioned vehicle
M1 Abrams U.S. platoon organization
Hoisted power pack; Top left section: Engine lubricating-oil cooler heat exchanger (HE). Lower section: Transmission. Lower rear: High Temperature-HE (HTHE) "Recuperator". [ 225 ] [ 226 ] [ 227 ]
An original M1 Abrams alongside the West German Leopard 2 demonstrated in Switzerland in 1981
An M1A1 in U.S. Army service at Fort Knox , Kentucky in 1988
A Kuwaiti Army M1A2 fires at a target at a live-fire range near Camp Buehring , Kuwait in 2012.
A Saudi Arabian M1A2S moving into position during Exercise Eager Lion , 2022
Early prototype of the M1E3 Abrams at the 2026 Detroit Auto Show
Tank Test Bed prototype at the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection , Fort Benning
Surrogate Research Vehicle c. 1985. Note the four crew members located in the hull.
A Grizzly Combat Mobility Vehicle (CMV)
An Australian Abrams tank in 2021
Egyptian Abrams tank deployed during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
M1A1 SA-UKR tanks intended for Ukraine arriving in Germany, May 2023