It was raining heavily, and one M1 managed to get stuck in a mud hole and could not be extracted. The following story happened to an M1 Abrams main battle tank in General Barry McCaffrey's 24th Mechanized Infantry Division during the Gulf War. Yes but there are different kinds of armor for example a M1A2 has "Armor Thickness: Up to the equivalent to 1000mm of armor grade steel" that is reinforced with depleted uranium. IMO the tank is an improvement over our old tank force and, more importantly, an improvement we could afford. It does have a laser illumination detection system and flares. An arrow shell can penetrate over 450 mm of equivalent armor at over 4000 m. Do any of you guys know how the tank performed in combat? Were any lessons learned? Does the TR85M1 tank have redeeming qualities or does it belong in the trash pile? I know that Romania exported some TR85's to Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war.
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The only good thing about it is the price, about a million to upgrade (T80U1 costs 3 mil.), however the export value is virtually 0 since no country has TR85's. The best part of the tank is the targeting system which is just decent.Ī better idea would have been to upgrade the TR-125's, which the Romanian version of the T-72 and a bit better actually (armor wise). It has no active or passive anti-missile defense system except for the old smoke grenades, nor does it have a laser detection system. Yeah it was advertised as the best tank with a 100mm cannon however an efficient tank cannon has 120-5mm, something all competitive tanks have these days ( the new T-95 Russian tank has 156mm)
It has 50t and a 860hp engine which gives it only 17hp/t which in comparison with other tanks is really weak (T80U-27,5CP/t,M1A1Abbrams 22Cp/t) The TR85M1 is a modernized TR85 which in turn is a modified T55. I'm not an expert myself however I have read some interesting critiques to the tank.