Right and do you honestly think they would spend the money needed to convert all of these to DU hulls/turrets when they clearly needed to cut costs, hell if the main use for these was during Iraq they sure as hell knew adding DU to these would be redundant because they wouldn’t be facing anything of major concern in terms of firepower.
Do you see the picture now in why adding DU to what is basically a refresh fleet makes no sense.
No its not a reach, this was lifted in 2005 and the Nuclear Energy Association confirm that with public documents.
What you also dont see to grasp is the stockpile of DU the US have isnt all in the form needed to produce armour, the majority of there stockpile is in the form of DU Hexaflouride (DUHF) which costs money to deconvert, as of 2024 the Nuclear Energy Association claim the US have roughly 765000 tonnes of Hexaflouride stockpiled and this has to be converted if you want to use in other areas like armour and ammo
No it isn’t. It does not mention installation. it doesn’t even mention that they are allowed to possess the packages outside of the turrets and the 5 hulls. Only as part of them.
Correct, so who installs them?
correct.
No, they have not given authorization for handling the packages outside of the turrets and the 5 hulls. They have not authorized transport and storage of the packages. only as part of turrets and the 5 hulls.
No, point 13 and 17.
for security reasons.
No, absolutely not. Not even a little. You are completely impossible.
Condition 17 actually disproves your point. Read the very first sentence: Except as specifically provided otherwise in this license.
That is a legal override clause. It means that if a specific box in the license header says something different than the old letters, the license header wins.
Item 8 on the first page specifically provides the maximum amount as As Needed. Because the license itself provides this specific As Needed authorization, it legally overrides the 5 tank limit mentioned in the 2006 letter.
You are trying to use the fine print to ignore the primary authorization of the document. If the NRC wanted a 5-tank limit, they would have typed the number 5 in the Maximum Amount box. Instead, they deleted the number and wrote As Needed to account for a mass-produced fleet.
This matches exactly what your other source, the 2012 review, said on page 38: that the possession limits were removed because the number of tanks changes frequently and is now classified.
The number 5 is not a secret and it does not change frequently. You are using a 20-year-old note from a schoolhouse application to ignore the current legal reality. The Army is licensed for an unlimited, classified number of hulls. The CBO audit confirms they paid for those hulls. The 5 prototypes argument is over.
You are clearly getting emotional and resorting to one-word denials because the literal text of these documents contradicts your theory. I am not going to keep arguing with analogies about bikes and nails while you ignore federal law. I won’t respond again until you can explain why your own source says the inventory is a classified, frequently changing number if you honestly believe only 5 tanks exist. If you can’t explain that contradiction, you are just ignoring the evidence to protect an old decision.
No. I resort to one word answers as to not sound like a broken record and just repeat previous answers that have already since long disproved you singular logic track.
I’m not ignoring anything.
Turrets. They have frequent changes of DU in turrets. hulls stay 5.
No contradiction, i have said turrets 100 + times at this point.
Page 38 of the 2012 review says the number of M1 tanks and tank parts changes frequently. It does not say only turrets change. A tank includes the hull. If the hull count was permanently five, it would be a constant, not a frequently changing variable. There is also zero logic in making the number five a national security secret when it was public knowledge for decades. The quantity only became classified information because it shifted from five prototypes to the mass produced fleet.
Claiming the inventory is a secret frequently changing number while also claiming it is a public constant of five is a total contradiction. The CBO audit confirms the AIM fleet got the armor, the NRC says the quantity is now classified, and the 5 tank note hasn’t been the legal reality for twenty years. Since there is no explanation for why your own source calls the count a classified secret if you think it is still five, we really are done here. The documents are clear.
Gaijin dismissing these sources previously does not change the literal text of the documents. Those older developer responses rely almost entirely on the 2006 letter note about 5 hulls while ignoring the actual legal reason the NRC removed that limit. The 2012 NRC review explicitly states that possession limits were deleted because the number of tanks and parts is classified information and changes frequently.
If the hull count was a permanent, public constant of five, there would be no security risk and no reason to classify the number. A static number is not a frequently changing variable.
The CBO audit confirms the mass-produced M1A1 AIM fleet received Heavy Armor in the hull. That is a financial record of what the government actually paid for during the refurbishment of hundreds of tanks. Claiming the documents are inconclusive just because the developers chose to ignore them in the past is a circular argument.
The documents are consistent: the NRC license is unlimited and the quantity is classified because it is significant, and the CBO budget audit confirms the fleet-wide upgrade was performed. Past developer decisions based on older, more restrictive versions of the license do not override the current legal and financial records.
The answers still hold. None of the information you have provided are new things, read the THREADS and not just the top post. You have impossibly in this time read through thousands of responses and linked documents.
Yes, those reports were rejected, but look at the specific reason given in the screenshot. It says: Only 5 for Hulls… had DU in the hulls.
That reasoning is outdated based on the 2012 NRC Review linked earlier. Page 38 states the possession limits were removed because the number of tanks changes frequently and is classified. If the inventory was actually fixed at 5, it would not be changing frequently and it wouldn’t need to be classified.
So those previous rejections were based on incomplete data. You can’t use a 5 Tank rejection reason to dismiss a Classified Inventory reality. The source provided in this thread invalidates the reason those reports were closed.
And regarding the physical model, the CBO Report confirms the M1A1 AIM received Heavy Armor added to the hull. Yet in War Thunder, the M1A1 AIM hull armor layout is visually identical to the base M1 from 1980.
You are asking us to believe that the Heavy Armor upgrade paid for by Congress and audited by the CBO resulted in zero physical change to the tank’s protection layout after 20 years of development. Even if you refuse to accept it is DU, you have to admit the game is factually wrong for showing no changes to the hull after a documented Heavy Armor upgrade.
So based on gaijin’s logic, abrams should get his DU armor, i mean, kh38mt is in game without evidence of production, so whats the point to not fix m1 armor?
The 2012 NRC review states the number of M1 Tanks and tank parts changes frequently. It does not say Only Turrets. An M1 Tank consists of a hull and a turret. If the hull inventory was a static constant of five, the total count of tanks containing regulated material would not be a frequently changing, classified variable.
You also admitted that improvements were made for sure.
This brings us back to the CBO naming convention which you keep ignoring.
The CBO table lists the IPM1 upgrade as Improved composite armor.
The CBO table lists the AIM upgrade as Heavy armor added to hull.
We know the CBO has a specific vocabulary for non-DU hull upgrades: Improved Composite. They used it in the very same table.
If the AIM hull upgrade was just a non-DU composite improvement as you claim, why did the CBO switch terms to Heavy Armor?
They switched because the material changed. Heavy Armor is the Army’s term for the radioactive package.
You are admitting the armor should be better than the 1980 model, but you are refusing to accept the specific material named in the budget audit because it contradicts a 20 year old note about school tanks. The CBO named the improvement. It is Heavy Armor.
It doesn’t say the hulls change either. both can be true, thus it’s inconclusive.
If the turrets change it is.
I haven’t ignored it, please stop lying that i ignore things.
Still conjecture, nowhere is it explicitly stated that Heavy Armor = DU.
THE. TURRETS. How many times do i have to repeat THE TURRETS for it to stick ?
Here, ill help:
→ THE TURRETS! ←
For every thing your read, in all your documents, the turrets being the only component with DU will still logically cover EVERYTHING. Its not the only way to read it, but you very easily can so all your documents are inconclusive.
→ THE TURRETS! ←
Heavy Armor → SYSTEM ← It’s not defined as a material.
The CBO wrote: Heavy armor added to hull and turret.
If Heavy Armor refers only to the DU in the turret as you claim, then the sentence would read: DU-in-Turret added to hull and turret.
That is linguistically impossible. You cannot add a turret-exclusive feature to a hull.
When a sentence says Subject X added to Object A and Object B, it means Subject X is present in both objects.
You claim Heavy Armor is a System and not a material.
The Federal Register Section 2 explicitly calls it: the depleted uranium (DU) armor package.
A package is a physical item. The CBO says that package was added to the hull.
Screaming THE TURRETS does not change the fact that the CBO explicitly listed the Hull as a recipient of the Heavy Armor upgrade. If the hull just got composite, they would have written Composite added to hull. They didn’t. They wrote Heavy Armor because the material matches the definition.
I have no idea what you’re even trying to say at this point.
Yes, if Subject X is a multi part SYSTEM with several components of different materials the Object A can be a different material than Object B and the sentence still semantically works.
No, they do not equate the system to the package, the system might as well just contain the package among other things and the sentences semantically still work. CBO doesn’t mention the word “package” .
Which can be non-DU for the hull and DU for the turrets and all your sources would not be false or contradict each other in the slightest.
Speculation.
It’s enough for the turrets to be DU for that to hold true.
You keep saying it is a multi-part system where the hull is non-radioactive, but that ignores how the CBO actually wrote the table.
Look at the column for the IPM1. They explicitly wrote Improved composite armor. They have a specific vocabulary for non-DU upgrades and they used it right there.
But for the AIM, they switched the term to Heavy armor.
If the AIM hull was just the non-radioactive composite part of the system like you claim, why did they switch terms? Why not just write Improved Composite again? They changed the name because the material changed to the radioactive package defined in the Federal Register. Using the radioactive system name to describe a non-radioactive composite hull would be bad auditing.
And regarding the license, look at the specific grammar in Item 9. It authorizes DU material utilized as Armor in tank turrets and hulls.
It does not say DU is utilized in the Heavy Armor System. It says the material is utilized in the Hull. If the hull was just a steel bracket for a DU turret, the NRC would not list the hull as a utilization point for the uranium. They listed it because the uranium is physically integrated into it.
You already admitted that for the 5 prototypes, the Heavy Armor hull contains DU. The CBO states that the AIM fleet received Heavy Armor hulls. It makes zero sense for the Army to use the exact same specific name for the 5 real DU hulls and the 1,000 fake composite hulls in the same budget era. The simplest answer is that the fleet matches the prototypes.
Yeah, nothing i say seems to be landing anywhere near your memories. I have already answered every point you make here. Re-read my previous answers. You’re not countering anything i say and just keep repeating your statements that have been disproven.
I could quite literally answer this and all of your coming answers by just quoting myself.
You actually haven’t answered the specific contradiction in the CBO table. You keep claiming Heavy Armor is just a generic system name, but you completely ignored the fact that the CBO used the specific term Improved Composite for the IPM1 in the exact same table.
If the AIM hull was just non-radioactive composite like you claim, the CBO would have used the composite label again. They didn’t. They switched to Heavy Armor. You never explained why a federal auditor would change terminology if the material stayed the same.
You also didn’t explain why the NRC would remove a specific 5-tank limit if the inventory never changed. A static number of 5 isn’t a security risk or a frequently changing variable.
Waving these contradictions away by saying it is just a system isn’t an answer. It is ignoring the specific vocabulary used by the federal auditors to distinguish between materials. But if you are done discussing the actual text of the documents, then we can leave it there. The CBO distinction stands on its own.
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There is no contradiction.
Already answered.
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It is, it absolutely is, it covers all bases.
They don’t. That is YOUR conclusion.
It can’t. It quite literally can’t. By definition it can’t. It doesn’t explicitly say “There is DU armor in the hull” all by itself.
Without your applied logic and outside documents with more applied logic to them nothing in your arguments and sources hold any weight on their own. All of your conclusions, all of your logical steps. ALL OF IT! Is conjecture, assumptions and speculation. Nowhere does it EXPLICITLY state EXACTLY: “DU is in the hull of all abrams tanks”.
You claim you answered it, but you actually just sidestepped the specific contradiction in the text.
You said the CBO switched to the term Heavy Armor just because the turret has DU.
But you failed to explain why they didn’t do the same thing for the IPM1.
The IPM1 was also part of a system upgrade. Yet the CBO explicitly labeled its hull Improved composite armor.
When they got to the AIM, they stopped using the word Composite and switched to Heavy Armor.
If the AIM hull was just part of a system where the hull remained composite, the CBO would have written Heavy Armor Turret and Composite Hull. Or they would have stuck with the term they already established in the previous column.
Switching the terminology for the hull specifically implies a change in the hull material. Simply saying “It’s a system” doesn’t explain why the auditors stopped using the accurate word for composite.
And regarding the NRC review:
You admitted the document says the inventory changes frequently.
A static inventory of 5 museum pieces does not change frequently.
You haven’t explained why the NRC would describe a permanent number of 5 as a frequently changing variable. Saying “Security” explains why it is secret, but it doesn’t explain why the NRC claims the number fluctuates if it is actually constant.
The only scenario where the inventory changes frequently and is classified is if it covers the active fleet moving through depots. Your 5-tank theory makes the NRC’s description of their own inventory physically impossible.
