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The Abrams SEPv3 is an upgrade within the M1 family. The Australian Army’s equipment profile provides an identifiable operator context for the specifications being researched here.
United StatesTechnical data
The system in detail
The Army describes changes to communications, protection and sustainment while noting the vehicle’s outward similarity to earlier Abrams versions. Appearance alone is a poor guide to configuration.
The source’s dimensions and crew are suitable review candidates. Its mass does not specify the load condition, and its speed and range are lower bounds; those are deliberately not converted into exact comparison values.
Visual reference
Main battle tank
United States
1980–present
See Operators below
Gulf War Waco siege UNOSOM II Yugoslav Wars Operation Joint Endeavour Operation Joint Guard Kosovo War Task Force Hawk Operation Joint Guardian Global War on Terrorism War in Afghanistan Iraq War War in Iraq Arab Spring Egyptian Revolution of 2011 Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen Syrian Civil War (possible) United States intervention in Syria (possible) Syrian conflict (2024-present) (possible) Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine
Chrysler Defense (now General Dynamics Land Systems )
1972–1976
Lima Army Tank Plant
M1A1: $4.3 million (domestic cost, FY1989) (c. $10.66 million, FY2023) M1A2 SEPv3: $24 million (export cost, FY2022)
1979–present
approx. 10,300 as of 2017
See Variants and upgrades
M1: 60 short tons (54 t ) M1A1: 63 short tons (57 t) M1A1 SA: 67.6 short tons (61.3 t) M1A2 SEPv2: 71.2 short tons (64.6 t) M1A2 SEPv3: 73.6 short tons (66.8 t)
Gun forward: 32.04 ft (9.77 m) Hull length: 26.02 ft (7.93 m)
12 ft (3.66 m)
8 ft (2.44 m)
4 (commander, gunner, loader, driver)
+20° / −10°
9 seconds/360 degrees
Composite armor
M1: 105 mm L/52 M68A1 rifled gun (55 rounds) M1A1+M1A2: 120 mm L/44 M256 smoothbore gun (40 rounds)
1 × 0.50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2HB heavy machine gun with 900 rounds 2 × 7.62 mm (.308 in) M240 machine guns with 10,400 rounds (1 pintle-mounted , 1 coaxial )
Honeywell AGT1500 multi-fuel turbine engine 1,500 shp (1,120 kW)
From 26.9 hp/t (20.05 kW/t) to 23.8 hp/t (17.74 kW/t)
Allison DDA X-1100-3B
High-hardness-steel torsion bars with rotary shock absorbers
M1, M1A1: 0.48 m (1.6 ft; 19 in) M1A2: 0.43 m (1 ft 5 in)
504.4 US gallons (1,909 L)
M1A2, road: 265 mi (426 km) Cross country: 93–124 mi (150–200 km)
M1A1, road: 45 mph (72 km/h) (governed) M1A2, road: 42 mph (67 km/h) (governed) Off-road: 25 mph (40 km/h)
Australia
Egypt
Iraq
Kuwait
Morocco
Poland
Saudi Arabia
South Korea
Taiwan
Ukraine
United States
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
M1A2 Abrams at Fort Stewart, December 2016. Family photograph: the source does not identify SEPv3, so this image is not shown as an SEPv3 photograph.
US Army photo by Master Sgt. Erick Ritterby, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain in the United States — US Army official work · Source ↗ · ModifiedM1 Abrams equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
AustraliaAustralian Army M1A2 SEPv3 received and fielded fleet only; no assault breachers, bridges, stored former M1A1 or future orders.
BahrainNumber column of the Wikipedia list table under "Armoured fighting vehicles". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
EgyptArmy exact named equipment holdings: M1A1 Abrams. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / MBT. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
IraqArmy exact named equipment holdings: M1A1 Abrams. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / MBT. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
KuwaitReported count for M1A2 Abrams. Service scope: Kuwait Land Forces; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 218 (M1A2) 218 (M1A2K). Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
MoroccoReported count for M1 Abrams. Service scope: Royal Moroccan Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 384. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2024), not the article revision. 2024 cited source edition. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
PolandArmy exact named equipment holdings: M1A1 Abrams; M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / MBT. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Saudi ArabiaEstimated Saudi Army M1A2S Abrams holdings, not M1A2 SEPv3.
South Korea
TaiwanArmy exact named equipment holdings: M1A2T Abrams. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / MBT. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
UkraineArmy exact named equipment holdings: M1A1 Abrams. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / MBT. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
United StatesUS Army exact named equipment holdings: M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / MBT. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Australia, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, United States
Equipment reference ↗Reported count for M1A1 Abrams. Service scope: Egyptian Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): in service: 1,300. Origin: United States Egypt. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Reported count for M1A1 Abrams. Service scope: current equipment of the Iraqi Ground Forces; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 487. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2024), not the article revision. 2024 cited source edition. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
Reported count for M1 Abrams · M1A1 FEP. Service scope: Polish Land Forces; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): quantity: 116. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Reported count for M1 Abrams. Service scope: United States Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): quantity: 2,640 operational. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.