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General Dynamics To Design New Saudi M1A2 Tanks

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Friday, November 14th, 2008

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General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded $58.3 million to design the new Saudi M1A2 (M1A2S) Abrams [GD] tank for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command awarded the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract for the Royal Saudi Land Forces. Under the engineering contract, General Dynamics will design, develop, convert, implement and test a hybrid configuration of the M1A1, M1A2 and M1A2 System Enhancement Package (SEP) tank variants for Saudi Arabia. The M1A1S vehicles will…

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