As part of the contract, GDLS provided technical assistance and equipment to M1A1 tanks at the Egyptian tank plant. The tanks are fitted with FLIR thermal site, tank urban survivability kit (TUSK) enhancements and a driver’s vision-enhancing thermal viewer.Ī $45m contract was signed in July 2009 under the Egyptian tank co-production programme. In March 2009, the TACOM LCMC awarded a $33m contract to GDLS for long-lead materials to produce 140 M1A1 SA (situational awareness) tanks for the Iraq programme. In February 2009, the US Army TACOM life-cycle management command (TACOM LCMC) awarded GDLS a multiyear contract worth $81m to upgrade 30 M1 Abram tanks to M1A2 systems enhancement package version 2 (SEPv2) configuration. The Iraqi Army received the final shipment of five M1A1 Abrams tanks in August 2011. In July 2008, the Iraqi Government requested the sale of 140 M1A1 tanks to be upgraded to the M1A1M configuration. GDLS was awarded a $349m contract in January 2008 for the production of 125 M1A1 tank kits under the tenth increment of the Egyptian co-production programme. It also requested spare and repair parts, maintenance, support equipment, special tool and test equipment, personnel training and equipment, publications and technical documentation, as well as US government and contractor engineering and logistics support services. In August 2007, Egypt requested the $1.32bn foreign military sale of an additional 125 M1A1 tanks, which would bring the country’s fleet to 1,005 M1A1 tanks.Įgypt also requested 125 M256 armament systems, 125 M2 50-calibre machine guns, 250 M240 7.62mm machine guns, 125 AGT-1500 M1A1 series tank engines and transmissions, and 120mm test cartridges. The upgrade involves rebuilding to a ‘like new’ condition, similar to the US Army Abrams integrated management programme (AIM). In June 2006, Saudi Arabia requested the foreign military sale of 58 M1A1 tanks and the upgrade of these and the 315 M1A2 already in the Saudi inventory to the M1A2S configuration. The remaining 41, to be based in Darwin, were delivered in March 2007.
The first 18 tanks were delivered to the Australian Army at the School of Armour in Victoria in September 2006. The contract was signed in November 2005 and the first five were handed over in February 2006 at GDLS in Lima, Ohio. In March 2004, the Australian Army announced the purchase of 59 US Army M1A1 tanks to enter service from 2007.
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