The Army’s new tank munition combines the power of four rounds into one
“I’d take it to hell and back.”
By Haley Britzky | Updated Nov 4, 2021 12:29 PM
News Army Military Tech
Two lucky Army tank crews with the 4th Infantry Division made history in September when they were the first ever to fire a new multi-purpose tank round, which has been in the making for 15 years.
And they freakin’ loved it.
“It was incredible,” Staff Sgt. Nicholas Smearman, one of the soldiers who tested out the new round, said in an Army release. “To be out there doing what we’re doing, to be able to set forward the future of (M1) Abrams development, and the fact we were the first ones out there, probably be the only ones who have hands-on this round for a long time, to be able to set that historically, we felt honored to be out there.”
The XM-1147 Advanced Multi-Purpose (AMP) round, a line-of-sight tank round developed by Northrop Grumman Defense Systems for the Abrams tank, is designed to do the job of four existing rounds, consolidating their abilities into one munition.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/army-xm-1147-amp-tank-round/
