M1A1 Abrams

Morocco’s military has introduced into service the first of its recently acquired M1A1SA main battle tanks. At least two upgraded Abrams tanks were seen moving through Casablanca on 10 July. On 26 July the state-owned Medi1 television channel published images of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces accepting the first Abrams in a ceremony at the […]

Iraq secured a $2.7 billion loan from the United States on Wednesday to fund ammunition and maintenance of fighter jets, tanks and other military equipment for use in the war against Islamic State. Baghdad will have eight and a half years, including a one-year grace period, to repay the loan, which carries a 6.45 percent […]

The Pentagon continues to search so hard for clear victories against the Islamic State that it can show off to a war-weary American public that it has begun heavily promoting the exploits of a single Iraqi tank nicknamed the “Beast.” Baghdad-based military spokesman Col. Steve Warren went out of his way during a routine Wednesday […]

General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $15,944,272 cost-plus-fixed-fee foreign military sales contract (Egypt) with options for technical services supporting domestic Egyptian M1A1 production.  One bid was solicited with one received.  Work will be performed in Sterling Heights, Michigan, with an estimated completion date of May 8, 2019.  Fiscal 2010 other procurement […]

General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $72,530,339 modification (P00031) to foreign military sales (Iraq) contract W56HZV-13-D-0015 for logistics support and training for M1A1 Tanks and M88 recovery vehicles for the government of Iraq, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2016.  Funding and work location will be determined with each […]

Earlier this month, Shia militiamen in Iraq dropped off an American-supplied Abrams tank at a US-supported repair facility where workers were surprised to find an attached Russian machine gun plus Iranian ammo, Defense News has learned. The MIA1 main battle tank — one of 146 frontline tanks the US sold to Baghdad — was transported […]

Minister of State for Military Production Mohamed al-Assar met Thursday with US ambassador Robert Stephen Beecroft and Donald Schenk, vice chairman of General Dynamics, agreeing to provide the necessary components to resume the production of tank’s in Egypt. Egypt and the US had discussed the possibility of increasing cooperation between the two nations, to boost […]

General Dynamics Land Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $358,000,000 firm-fixed-price undefinitized foreign military sales contract (Morocco) for conversion of 150 M1A1 vehicles to the M1A1 situational awareness configuration.  Work will be performed in Lima, Ohio, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 28, 2018.  One bid was solicited with one received.  Fiscal 2010 […]

Defense Munitions International, St. Petersburg, Florida, was awarded an $84,710,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity foreign military sales contract (Iraq) for 120mm armor piercing rounds. Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received. Funding and work location will be determined with each order.  Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (W15QKN-15-D-0066).

Morocco is set to receive at least 50 M1A1 Abrams tanks, according to a contract announced by the US Department of Defense (DoD) on 28 August. The USD17.2 million contract was awarded to General Dynamics Land Systems and covers the “removal and disposal of 50 M1A1 frontal turret armour packages and installation of M1A1 situation […]