LAND 907 PHASE 2: ABRAMS M1 AIM SA MAIN BATTLE TANK UPGRADE

The LAND 907 Phase 2 Main Battle Tank (MBT) upgrade will look to improve Australian Army’s MBTs and acquire additional M88 Armoured Recovery Vehicles (ARV). The ARV will conduct armoured recovery for both LAND 907 Phase 2 MBT Upgrade and new LAND 8160 Phase 1 Combat Engineering Vehicles (CEV). Brigadier Jeremy King, Director General Platforms told APDR for this article: “Army needs the ability to provide highly capable combat power from a heavily armoured and mobile vehicle, being the Main Battle Tank. “LAND 907 Phase 2 will improve vehicle sensors, communications and control systems. The Main Battle Tank will be deployable regionally and globally via air, sea and land to respond to a wide variety of threat scenarios. It will be interoperable with the Joint Force and our key ally, the United States.” Defence seeks to deliver LAND 907 Phase 2 and LAND 8160 Phase 1, both projects being managed in parallel due to similarities in the major systems, training requirements, sustainment and schedules, through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, and as such will not go to market for the acquisition of the platforms. This process has commenced, but is awaiting Second Pass approval in the second-half of 2021. The LAND 907 Phase 2 upgrade will be achieved by replacing the in-service M1A1 AIM SA MBT with an M1A2 variant of the United States Abrams MBT. Read the story here. For Editorial Inquiries Contact: Editor Kym Bergmann at [email protected] For Advertising Inquiries Contact: Director of Sales Graham Joss at [email protected]