Image source: Photo: blog of Yuri Lyamin, KCNA
The new American M1E3 Abrams is similar in layout to the Russian T-14 on the Armata heavy tracked platform. Its crew, consisting of three people, as on our "fourteenth", sits in the front of the hull.
You can, of course, recall earlier developments, including overseas ones, but those heavy tracked ones were models, prototypes, but it was on the UVZ machine that this idea was really brought to life, so that no one would write there and no matter how some detractors and outright enemies tried to distort reality.
Image source: Photo: blog of Yuri Lyamin, KCNA
The combat module on the M1E3
Another repetition (most likely, not a special one) of foreign experience is a set of weapons used in a remote-controlled installation on a tower. Here you can see a 12.7mm M2 machine gun, a 40 mm Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher and a container with an FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missile. The latest versions of this ATGM have a range of 4,000 meters.
Image source: Photo: blog of Yuri Lyamin, KCNA
Arming a tank from the DPRK
This is reminiscent of the North Korean Chonma - 216 tank, shown back in 2017, on April 15, at a parade in Pyongyang dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung. His turret module had two automatic grenade launchers and a Bulsae-3 ATGM located next to them. HT-16PGJ anti-aircraft missile systems were also installed. For such an abundance of various weapons, these combat vehicles were nicknamed "death harvesters."
Image source: Photo: blog of Yuri Lyamin, KCNA
"Death harvesters" at the parade
The M1E3 Abrams doesn't have any unofficial nicknames yet, and probably won't appear at all.: considering how many military programs were put under the knife after the disbursement of funds, it is possible that this project will not receive development either.
Alexey Brusilov
