{"id":60396,"date":"2021-12-21T23:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60396"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:36:43","slug":"m1a2-abrams-an-interesting-report-that-explains-how-this-tank-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/12\/21\/m1a2-abrams-an-interesting-report-that-explains-how-this-tank-works\/","title":{"rendered":"M1A2 Abrams: An interesting report that explains how this tank works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The M1 Abrams has been the flagship of the United States Army's main battle tank since 1980. It is, without a doubt, one of the most famous vehicles in its class.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/08\/16\/the-video-of-the-impressive-military-parade-of-the-polish-army-day-held-in-katowice\/\">The video of the impressive military parade of the Polish Army Day held in Katowice<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"An American M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank in Kuwait... wearing a motto 100% Trump\">An American M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank in Kuwait... wearing a motto 100% Trump<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Already more than 40 years old, <strong>the Abrams remains today a very powerful and advanced weapon of war<\/strong>, thanks to the constant updates that have been made to it, so it is expected to remain in service for many years, since it still does not have a replacement in sight. <strong>An interesting video by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCbsfyGlrjrKQC0gbzK0-EiA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Owen<\/a> shows how this battle tank works<\/strong>, both outside and inside, including the function of each of its four crew members.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SdL55HWNPRM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However, it should be said that <strong>the video includes a small error:<\/strong> when talking about the smoke grenade launchers, the video shows the tank directly emitting smoke from the launchers. <strong>The Abrams' M250 smoke grenade launcher<\/strong> (and those on other tanks) does not work like this, but instead launches smoke grenades and they explode at a certain height at a certain distance from the tank, creating the smoke screen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/04\/09\/el-lanzamiento-de-granadas-fumigenas-por-un-carro-de-combate-leopardo-2e-espanol\/\">You can see an example of a Leopard 2E launching smoke grenades here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M1 Abrams has been the flagship of the United States Army&#8217;s main battle tank since 1980. It is, without a doubt, one of the most famous vehicles in its class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11548],"tags":[5910],"class_list":["post-60396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armament","tag-m1-abrams"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 07:07:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}