{"id":13799,"date":"2023-08-07T02:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13799"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:54:57","slug":"what-is-an-m1-abrams-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-an-m1-abrams-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an M1 Abrams Tank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About M1 Abrams Tank<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>United States main battle tank.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>first M1 tank was manufactured by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS<\/strong>) <strong>in 1978 <\/strong>and was delivered to the US Army in 1980.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>named in honor to General Abrams<\/strong>, <strong>commander of US forces during the Vietnam War.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The export version of the Abrams is <strong>used by the armies of Australia, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Poland, and Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Features of M1 Abrams Tank<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>uses a powerful and complex turbine engine<\/strong> that produces <strong>1,500 horsepower<\/strong> and <strong>requires four persons to operate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of the heaviest tanks in service at nearly 62 metric tons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The M1 tanks have a <strong>maximum speed of 45.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Armament<\/strong>: The Abrams is armed with a <strong>120 mm main gun<\/strong> and .<strong>50 caliber and 7.62 mm machine guns.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>destroy tank-size targets at a range of 2 km<\/strong> while firing on the move.<\/li>\n<li>In modern versions of the Abrams tank, there are <strong>layers of depleted uranium armour<\/strong> which provides substantial protection to those inside.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a turbine engine?<\/h3>\n<p>A turbine engine, also known as a gas turbine engine or jet engine, is a type of internal combustion engine that converts fuel into mechanical energy in the form of a high-speed rotating shaft. It is commonly used in aviation for propulsion of aircraft, but it also has various other applications, including power generation, marine propulsion, and industrial processes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/world-news\/russia-ukraine-crisis\/ukraine-to-receive-first-batch-of-us-made-abrams-tanks-this-fall-pentagon-confirms-articleshow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Ukraine To Receive First Batch Of US-made Abrams Tanks This Fall, Pentagon Confirms<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M1 Abrams Tank is the United States main battle tank. The United States has officially given the nod for the delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}