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The Beast is Back

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4.8747 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Due to the enormous QUANTITATIVE advantage held by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, US policy shifted to maximizing the QUALITATIVE advantages of Western technology when it came to weapon systems. And so the US Army built what was unquestionable the best tank in the world: The M1A1 Abrams, also known as The Beast due to its battlefield dominance. But that was 1980. So what now? Meet the M1E3. And baby, The Beast is Back!

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott out from his undisclosed location in Greenland.

0:05.3

I hope it's a bomb shelter. And this is right angle. Now, for my segment this week, I wanted to talk about something important, but then I thought, what if we talk about something cool instead?

0:14.3

So let's do that. Okay, this is, this is so cool. It is the fully 21st century, all-seeing, all-killing, totally networked version of the Abrams main battle tank that first entered service the same year.

0:28.6

I entered middle school.

0:29.5

We're talking 1980 here.

0:31.5

So, gentlemen, as I hope you know by now, the original M1 Abrams is now the M1A2, SEPV3, but the Army canceled, right?

0:42.5

The Army canceled the SEPV4 because the damn tanks had gotten so heavy that they couldn't do little things like drive across bridges.

0:50.4

They just decided there are no more upgrades for these tanks. We got to start not with a

0:55.3

clean slate, but but with something very, very 21st century. So introducing the M1 E3 Abrams,

1:04.5

and you can actually see an early prototype on display at the Detroit Auto Show. You can just

1:09.2

go to your search engine and pull that up.

1:11.6

I love it.

1:12.4

And you'd better believe that the E stands for electronic.

1:16.4

So, Bill.

1:17.3

Oh, not electric.

1:18.6

Thank goodness.

1:20.3

Well, hang on.

1:21.3

We'll get to that in a second.

1:22.4

What's the point of winning a war if we lose the planet?

1:25.2

That's right.

1:29.2

So, Bill, a couple of weeks ago, you hosted a segment on the Trump-class battleship

1:33.8

that won't have any big guns, I'm sad to say, couldn't they just put one 16-inch

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