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Army Chief Details Team Working With GD To Build Future M1E3 Abrams Tank

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025

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Army Chief Details Team Working With GD To Build Future M1E3 Abrams Tank

An M1A2 main battle tank assigned to 1st Battalion, 35nd Armored Regiment breaches obstacles during AWA 17.1 at Fort Bliss on Oct. 21, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Frederick Poirier, 55th Combat Camera)

The Army’s chief of staff said on Tuesday the team working alongside General Dynamics Land Systems [GD] to build the new M1E3 Abrams tank includes Caterpillar [CAT] providing the engine, a SAPA-built transmission, and Anduril Industries and Applied Intuition developing the autonomy capability. “And because they are all coming together, we are going to have a tank that is much more lethal on the battlefield for half the weight and something [that has a] modular open system architecture that we…

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