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7/5/2025, 8:56:48 AM
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>The issue is that not all of those Abrams are the latest SEP v3 variant. Many of them are much older.
Exactly. That's why General Dynamics has a cost-plus contract to upgrade them for the foreseeable future. And if Lima can't keep up with demand, there's another line in Anniston Army Depot, plus whatever facilities local the customers can set up overseas.
>They can't keep up with demand while also selling to other countries.
Demand of what? SEPv3? Because, again, this whole debate is whether the Abrams is still in active production (ie. new hulls built from scratch), rather than just taking existing vehicles from the yard and rebuild them to modern standards.
Because no, there are no brand new Abrams hulls being made. Ditto with most Western tanks: Leclercs haven't been built since 2010, Challenger 2s since 2002, and the only plant making still new Leopard 2 hulls is in Greece.
>The US Army is able to produce a maximum of 35 M1A2SEPv3 a month at the Lima plant in Ohio with a standard rate of 12 per month and one shift at 40 hours per week.
And if there was some sort of urgency, the US Army still has over a thousand SEPv2s. Not state-of-the-art, but still miles better than the old M1A1s they sent to Ukraine.
>The issue is that not all of those Abrams are the latest SEP v3 variant. Many of them are much older.
Exactly. That's why General Dynamics has a cost-plus contract to upgrade them for the foreseeable future. And if Lima can't keep up with demand, there's another line in Anniston Army Depot, plus whatever facilities local the customers can set up overseas.
>They can't keep up with demand while also selling to other countries.
Demand of what? SEPv3? Because, again, this whole debate is whether the Abrams is still in active production (ie. new hulls built from scratch), rather than just taking existing vehicles from the yard and rebuild them to modern standards.
Because no, there are no brand new Abrams hulls being made. Ditto with most Western tanks: Leclercs haven't been built since 2010, Challenger 2s since 2002, and the only plant making still new Leopard 2 hulls is in Greece.
>The US Army is able to produce a maximum of 35 M1A2SEPv3 a month at the Lima plant in Ohio with a standard rate of 12 per month and one shift at 40 hours per week.
And if there was some sort of urgency, the US Army still has over a thousand SEPv2s. Not state-of-the-art, but still miles better than the old M1A1s they sent to Ukraine.
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