M1 Abrams blowout panels save tank crew 

1. The tank is an Iraqi M1A1SA export Abrams 2. This happened in Ramadi, Iraq. in 2016 3. It was a Metis-M ATGM that hit the tank. Not a RPG. 4. The tank backs up and stops after the commander bails. Driver is still controlling the tank. 5. This video is a response to another edited video, to make it seem like the crew died. 6. an in depth view of Leopard 2 and Abrams blowout panals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-prRQGmL-j5k.html

Notice how the turret doesn’t wind up landing on top of a five story building.

russian engineering is way better, they have a whole blow off turret. It vents the ammo much faster. And the crew gets ejected with it as well so they don't have to struggle to get out of tank.

Tanks are expensive, but they can be repaired or replaced. An experienced and dedicated crew is invaluable. It also goes along way to prove soldier morale when you treat them like their lives matter

I can attest to how the M1A1 Abrams is safe. I served on one, and even though it looks bad in the video, if hit, the turret is basically sealed for crew survivability. Inside the turret behind the loader are heavy sliding blast doors that seal and protects the crew from the blast. The blast doors on top of the turret are designed to blast off if the tank is hit. And whatever hasn't cooked off is ejected from the hull, therefore increasing the survivability of the crew. This crew was poorly trained, the tank commander should've swung the gun over the side so the driver could get out. That's all part of crew evacuation drills. We had to button up the tank (close all the hatches) and when give the command by the tank commander, we would un botton and get out as fast as possible and re consolidate somewhere far away from the vehicle. We practiced this drill religiously.

Crew survivability is so insanely underrated, a T-72 gets hit and their crew is dead, an Abrams crew gets hit and chances are, they can get back out there smarter than the first time

Late in the Iraq war another Abrams was hit by an RPG-7 in the ammo stowage at the rear of the tank. At the time, the 3-man Iraqi turret crew were outside of the tank when it was hit, but the driver was still inside the tank with his hatch closed. Because the turret hatches were open, fire eventually got into the turret and the tank started burning. The turret crew spent several frantic minutes trying to open the driver's hatch, but it would not open. While the tank burned, they heard the driver knocking on the inside of the hull for several minutes until the banging finally stopped. After the hull fire died down somewhat, they were able to approach the tank and sadly began working with some other soldiers to remove the driver's body, but when they started working around the hatch, the heard the driver yelling for them to get him out. When they finally got the driver's hatch open, the driver climbed out without a burn on his body. Initially, he'd stayed inside the tank because the driver's compartment is isolated from the rest of the tank, but when the interior of the turret area brewed up, the heat in the hull apparently froze the driver's hatch and it couldn't be opened until the hull had cooled off a bit. The driver stated that, aside from feeling like he was in slow cooker and not being able to touch anything metal, he was unhurt and rather impatiently bided his time while waiting for rescue. Lucky for him he was in an Abrams. If he was in a Russian-made T-72, he would've been roasted alive.

Rebulding a tank takes months, retraining the crew takes years.

It's hard to see from this angle. But there is a very good design solution in the abrams, namely, the ammunition rack is located behind the turret, in a special compartment, isolated by a partition, which allows, when the ammunition is detonated, to save the life of the crew. An explosion or fire occurs in the ammo rack, but since the partition is stronger than the other walls of this compartment, the release of combustion products occurs upward and to the sides.

Love how the commander is like “screw you boys I’m outta here!”

This is the engineering that comes from a military that values it's personnel more than it's equipment

T-72 is better. It has an automatic evacuation system. The crew leaves the tank together with the turret.

Against kinetic rounds, the wild m1 feels most inclined to pop smoke, however against the rarer heat species it pops flames instead as a means to protect the crew

this is what, in the business, they call a "significant emotional event"

He protec, He attac, but most importantly he has blow out ammo rack

When you see a tank commander bail out from a actually not life threatening situation and leaving his crew behind without any hint of hesitation, you just know it is a Arab tank.

The Abrams was not shot by a rocket. It was shot by an ATGM, missile. Probably a Metis ATGM based on how the missile moves. Rocket is unguided, like an RPG. Missile is guided.

Wow, that's pretty amazing! Better than trying to put a turret in space!

As a Recon Marine, I always said it would take 3 men and a welder to get me into a tank - and keep me there. Don't like BIG targets.

one FPV drone and Abrams for $6,000,000 turns into a pile of metal😂

Imagine the comments if this was a russian tank.

Абрамс настолько крут, что даже сгорает с мангалом 😂😂😂😂 Они ещё умудряются т90 хаить, цена Абрамса равняется как 2 танка т90, а теперь какие шансы у Абрамса против двух т90- ответ нет шансов 😂

I like how everyone here is comparing a modern Abrams to an ancient T-72

If anyone didn’t know, Soviet and Russian tanks with an automatic loader explode so much not because of the automatic loader, the fact is that propellant charges (in our automatic loaders, loading is separate) are mostly combustible, which is why after a shot the machine throws out only a small blank. It is because of this factor, that is, the lack of security of the propellant charges themselves, that such a strong detonation occurs. Let me remind you that now (in the war in Ukraine) most of the tanks on both sides are destroyed by artillery fire, and the artillery shell does not care what is in the tank and how it explodes, any hit is incapacitating. Translated with google translator

This. Regular folks often mistake this for a crew kill. Understandably, because there's a lot of violent fire, but it's designed that way.

A Russian turret would have reached a lunar orbit

Что самое интересное: один из членов экипажа решил сойти с танка, остальные остались, что там с командиром и другими не понятно, но ясно что механик остался в танке

Still not as impressive as T72's Turret Ejection System

russian blow out panels is just the entire tank

When the pilot unit in cnc generals is one of the most realistic thing an RTS put in a game and hasn't been imitated until act of aggression.

one hell of an explosive boomerang throw

That has to be the most wobbly rocket ive ever seen.

And get, the crew lived. Pretty fucking good job there, better than any other tank would have managed.

Perfectly intact, 100% crew survivability. It's Abrams.

That's crazy how the missile spun like that before impact.

A US tanker has never been killed in an M1 Abrams.

russia laughing at NATO and America because their tanks arent ground-aerial-hybrid vehicles

Everyone in Abrams gangsta until the rocket starts spinning

imagine how many tankers had to die until this technology was developed

If the T-72 took that hit, its tower would fly 30 meters and the crew would become BBQ

Just like how the onion works: Don't be hit | If hit... | Don't be penetrated | If penetrated... | Don't be killed

American tanks you need tank certificate, russian tanks you also need a flight certificate

T90 autoloader space program goes brrrrrrrr

before the atgm hit the turret the tank shot in the real footage might explain why the commander bailed out the tank might have been in the loading process as the atgm hit

driver: "...did it suddenly get warmer in here or was it just my spicy MRE"

Commander legit ran away with no gear or weapon, gave up, and let the crew fend for themselves. Mfer better be running for more ammo...

So a lot of people comparing Abrams to T-72... But nobody mentioned the price. Abrams cost was 6.2 mil USD as of 1999, (estimate 2024 price yourself..) and T-72 is 3 mil USD as of now.

Commamder: oh shit im out! Loader: uh. Uuuh. Gunner: Youre not goin anywhere! We still got one in chamber and 3 in the ready. Loader: uh, k Gunner: Driver, Commander is out. Reverse throttle!

Imagine being a soldier and you see your commander being the first guy to run away

The blowout panel was a genius creation

Meanwhile, Russian tankers in Ukriane: I BELIEVE I CAN FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

M1 Abraham’s tanks have NEVER been lost to enemy fire in combat, out of the 10 thousand currently made, we’ve only lost 13 of them and we had to blow them up so they didn’t fall into enemy hands after they got stuck or too damaged too move. Truly a piece of art.

On the third Abrams destroyed by an ATGM in Ukraine the blowout panel didn't do much to save the crew, there was an explosion a few seconds after the atgm hit that was probably HE or HEAT ammo cooking and killing everyone like it was said several times they would.

At least the M1 has an armoured safe for its ammunition, less likely to kill the crew , the Russians put their ammo on a carousel in the turret, not smart

i think what some people dont understand is that its safer to be inside of an abrams while the ammo is burning than it is to be outside of it. if all procedure is followed, and the back ammo compartment gets hit, nothing will happen to the crew. the tank is still fully functional too. i am willing to bet they stayed inside to avoid losing the tank, and their lives with it. people should also read the pinned comment. the abrams was disabled by an ATGM, not an rpg. there is no tank in the world capable of reliably stopping a direct hit from an ATGM, even the newest abrams or the T-90M. if you are being targetted by an ATGM, you either pop smoke and hope the ATGM doesn't hit you, or you try to evade. sure, it might happen once or twice, but, like i said, it will not reliably stop ATGMs. and can we please stop the nato vs russian tank debate? both tanks are just that - tanks. they're chunks of metal that move and shoot. they are not magic vehicles that can't be destroyed, and they have flaws. however, one thing that you have to admit is that american tanks are better than russian tanks in terms of survivability. sure, its not impossible for a russian tank crew to survive an ammo cook-off, it actually happens quite a bit, but it is less likely than in an american tank. also notice how i said "disabled" and not "destroyed". this is because if the ammo compartment itself is hit, it is unlikely for the fire to spread inside of the turret if all procedure is followed. however, it is not impossible. it is certainly possible for a fire from the back ammo compartment, or the hull ammo compartment, to spread into the turret. this, however, does not happen quickly, and more often than not allows the crew to escape. it is still possible to operate the abrams, aka drive it and even shoot it if there is a round loaded, while and after the ammo cooks off. i am willing to say, however, that an abrams can certainly suffer an ammo cook off at the hands of an RPG, but so can most, if not all, russian tanks. like i said, heavy chunks of metal that shoot, no tank is invincible. hope this cleared up some confusion.

According to official US reports, none of the crew members have died in all Abrams lost from the enemy's influence so far. Looking at these shots, it is clear that this is a lie. One guy of got out, but 100% got severe burns. The rest of the tower team most likely burned down. And not fast as in the T-72 or T-90, but slowly.

This kind of engineering for survivability is also why the Sherman was the best tank of WW2, no matter what anyone says. It had an 80% crew survival rate, which was far better than any other tank at the time.

I recall that in some versions of the Gundam universe the mech will shut down if the head is destroyed even though the pilot is located somewhere in the torso, the idea being that the enemy won't shoot at something that isn't an immediate threat to them (preferring targets that are) which makes it far more likely for the pilot to be recovered alive, whereas trying to fight without the main sensor array would be pretty much suicide. I can imagine a tank being built around the same principle, an array of external weapons like ATGMs which can be destroyed by the enemy without really endangering the crew in the tank below, letting them retreat to repair/rearm while their peers continue the offensive, ideally avoiding casualties altogether or forcing the enemy to put themselves at risk to finish off disarmed tanks.

And the most ironic thing, the guy who bailed out probably got more injured than the guys who stayed in the tank. He probably got some bad burns on his back being that close to a literal wall of fire.

The Russian tank crews should rather be given parachutes

This makes me feel safer since I want to be an M1 tanker

Абрамс: *взрыв боекомплекта* Экипаж: Кот Шредингера. Т-72 и т.д. российская техника: *взрыв боекомплекта* Экипаж: *жаркое в собственном соку со средней прожаркой*

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't an Abrams crew typically consist of 4 people not 1? Looks like 3 dudes got incinerated here.

If that's Russian tank, the turret would've self ejecting itself

The enemy using old ATGM, if they using Russian new ATGM this tank’s turret will fly to space

"Critical hit" + 350sl, 550RP

Thank you for posting this.

Please PLEASE can another few of you armor engineers copy and paste the whole "blow off panels/ammo cooks" Wikipedia article?

Notice how Americans in the comments finding every excuse for the Abram getting blown up,

Russophiles out here really trying to justify their T-72 crew ejection turrets against the M1 Abrams 💀

That commander didnt review his training log very well he said f that im out! The rest of the crew was like dude we are fine!!!

Don't know why the one guy bailed from a perfectly intact M-1 Abrams.

Because Americans value life and this is seen in the design.

Appears only 1 swift moving crew member escaped. Only way to keep Abrams safe is to keep it out of Ukraine because the armored Humvees there have already been shown split in half in numerous images

Good lord that tank looks sinister with the blowout panel flaming

В Т-72 он бы не выжил

Russian tanks have something similarly but its called turret

У советского танка давно бы уже башня отлетела, у абрамса преимущество, что боекомплект находится отдельно от экипажа.

I love this comment section. I'm used to going into the comments and needing to explain more details others forget when they hate on American tanks. In this case a downgraded export variant used by Iraqis. It seems the comment section finally understands. It's such a relief to see these comments.

Экипаж выжил после попадания ПТРК в бк... Я б не хотел видеть, что бы осталось от экипажа в совковом танке после такого попадания.

также будут гореть на территории украины)

Export tank, NOT a U.S. tank...

Myth: no abrams tank has ever been destroyed. I was lied to. They said no abrams has ever been destroyed. Anymore fire and that tank would have been the mouth to hell.

They're all grilled like a BBQ

I never knew they had a crew of 1

So my biggest takeaway from this clip is that the internal blast doors must have been shut and secured since there is no flames coming out of the commanders hatch when he bails. So in that case, why bail? Notice that the gunner and loader never come out and the tank actually reverses a bit, which could indicate the driver is alive and well and not getting roasted through the turret basket, which again, indicates that the loader and gunner SHOULD be ok...

The Russians have this aswell, it’s called the space program tho.

А где "выживаемость экипажа" Я увидел только одно члена экипажа из 4)))

That is how a tank should work. Thanks to every person that designed, built it, maintained it, and to tax payers that paid fir it

Интересно узнать, что даже на стадии интенсивного выгарания порохов, можно убежать и выжить.

Sign of a incapacitated M1: Pillar of fire Sign of a incapacitated T-90: Look up

_I woke up to go get me a cold pop_ Three minutes later:

I have unironically heard people say that the m1s blow out panels are useless due to the ammo in the hull yet most the time they never bring ammo in the hull for two reasons 1 no blow out panels there (I think but I think I remember something talking about side blow out panels) and 2 you’ve fucked up if you need more than 44 rounds (I wrote this at 2 am so I can’t be bothered to check for spelling errors and do punctuation)

Russians save money by making the blowout panel the turret.

the blowout panel in t72 is a whole turret

M1 focused a lot more in crew survivability for sure.

😂😂😂Когда уже иностранцы поймут что попадая в наш танк прежде чем взорветься боекомплект умирает экипаж потомучто боекомплект взрывается при пробитии брони танка там хоть даже если не взорветься боекомплект то экипаж уже будет мертвым при пробитии брони так что не нужно говорить что Абрамс безопасный если броня у него пробьеться так же и умрет экипаж и то что эти вышибные панели спасают жизнь это всего лишь сказки

Some say that it was the TC jumping out, it was actually the gunner who made tracks on his TC's head and got the hell out.

Abrams: oh sht ammo exploded, gtfo outta here T72's turret: _i'm a shooting star leaping trough the sky like a tiger defying laws of gravity_

Все комментарии говорят об одном что экипаж абрамся нельзя уничтожить ПТРК .Экипаж неуязвим .Это смешно!!!