A single emerging U.S. Army Abrams tank round is engineered to attack and destroy enemy tanks, bunkers, concrete walls, light armored vehicles and even small groups of enemy fighters — by enabling ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the 1990s, the U.S. Army was developing a new series of tank ammunition for the Abrams main battle tanks. The new round, designated XM943 Smart Target Activated ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 15, 2013) - The Army is developing a new Advanced Multi-Purpose 120mm tank round that combines six different capabilities into a single round, service officials ...

Key Point: This round could acquire a target and then explode above it. This innovation made it especially deadly but it was very costly and needed further technological improvements. In the 1990s, ...