General Dynamics To Upgrade Saudi M1A1/A2 Abrams Tanks
General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded a contract worth $133 million by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to procure 69 M1A2 Abrams tanks as a part of a planned upgrade to its fleet.
The U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command awarded this Foreign Military Sales contract on behalf of the Royal Saudi Land Forces.
As a part of the contract, the M1A1 and M1A2 tanks will be upgraded to the M1A2S configuration.
The Abram M1A2S have a configuration that contains an embedded version of the US Army's Force XXI command and control architecture, new Raytheon CITV with thermal imager, digital colour terrain maps, GEN II TIS thermal imaging gunner's sight, driver's integrated display and thermal management system.
The current contract will be carried out at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Centre in Lima, Ohio, with a completion date estimated at July 31, 2014.
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