While I'm going to attempt to build all of the current offerings as contemporary tanks documenting the corrections needed to get there, in each case it will take some combination of scratchbuilding and/or aftermarket products to bring these kits where they should be. What I've found so far is that nobody has produced the perfect kit though some have more challenges than others. I'm working on an Abrams special project and I though it worth looking at this kit to see how it stacks up against the other offerings on the market. Trumpeter released their M1A1/A2 kit a number of years ago but it remains on the market and this version is priced well below all of the other Abrams kits in this scale. The M1A1 continues as the main battle tank of the US Marine Corps. Since its introduction, the Abrams has been remanufactured into newer and more capable configurations including the M1A1 which introduced the 120mm gun and the M1A1 AIM (Abrams Integrated Management) which modernizes the tank with improved sensors and digital situational awareness. This combination made the Abrams a very agile and formidable weapon system on the battlefield. In addition to its advanced armor protection and fire control system, the Abrams was the first to employ a gas turbine engine for propulsion in place of the conventional diesel engines used by nearly all other modern tanks. Over time, the M1 evolved from its original 105mm M68 L/52 main gun in common with the earlier M60A1/A3 to the Rheinmetall 120mm smoothbore M256A1 L/44 gun also used by the Leopard 2 tank. The M1 Abrams entered service in 1980 as the US Army's new main battle tank to replace the M60 series.
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