Declassified U.S. Army footage of a Live Fire testing of the Ammunition Storage Blowout Panels on a M1A1 tank (probably Block II Prototype), very likely at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Ballistic Research Laboratory. September 22, 1986. This test simulates a combat scenario where the tank armor gets defeated by enemy projectiles and by consequence the ammunition on the tank gets ignited. As seen in the interior view, the blow out panels and ammunition compartment access doors worked like intended, re

6.3K views · 242 reactions | U.S. Soldiers, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, drive through the precision driving course with M1A2 Abrams tanks, as part of the Strong Europe Tank Challenge (SETC) at 7th Army Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 6, 2018. U.S. Army videos by Visual Information Specialists Gertrud Zach, Emily Houdershieldt and Kevin S. Abel. | M1 Abrams | Facebook