M1A1 Abrams

Main battle tank, USA. In service since 1986

How to recognise it

Seven road wheels and a wide, flat slab-sided turret; lacks the separate commander’s sight box of the M1A2.

Used by

Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Poland, Ukraine

Same family

Naming one of these instead still scores family points.

• M1A2 Abrams

Other tanks

• Altay
• C1 Ariete
• Challenger 2
• Challenger 3
• K2 Black Panther
• Leclerc
• Leopard 1A5
• Leopard 2A4
• Leopard 2A5
• Leopard 2A6
• Leopard 2A7
• M60 Patton

All 30 tanks

Sources

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• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1 Abrams