Talk:Lima Army Tank Plant

Unsupported statement that defies common sense
"Recapitalization efforts during the war have resulted in the youngest fleet age in the history of the Abrams program. The average age of the Abrams tank in U.S. Army service is less than two years."

First of all very few of these are 'new' tanks. These are older M1A1's that have been pulled out of the boneyard and refurbished up to the M1A2SEPv1 or v2 standard. According to https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m1-specs.htm the US Army has 586 M1A2's and 588 M1A2SEPs (v1 and v2). Now according to: http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/abrams.htm conversions of M1A1/2s to the SEP v1 variant began in 2000. So that means that 586 of the US tank fleet is 20 year old M1A2's And in 2012 the first National Guard unit was upgraded to M1A2SEPv2 http://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article-View/Article/575715/army-guard-unit-among-first-army-wide-to-receive-updated-battle-tank/

Now National Guard units almost never get the latest and greatest equipment. Typically the active duty gets new or refurbished equipment and their older equipment is then transferred to the National Guard. As a result the idea that the US tank fleet has an average age of two years is ludicrous at best. (Besides - Lima Tank Plant is the last remaining factory in the US that can make tanks, so we do not have the manufacturing capability to upgrade all of our tank fleet in under two years.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.242.249.153 (talk) 01:00, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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Plant tours
Does the Lima tank plant have tours of the plant 74.215.52.204 (talk) 16:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)