General Accounting Office (GAO), in which the GAO Comptroller General raised a number of questions surrounding the early XM1 test program. Just one example of these early feelings can be found in a January 1980 report issued by the U.S. While the turbine performance issues were subsequently resolved and the design combat proven on the battlefield, the new interest in a diesel option is supported by industry modeling of financial benefits. The concept of placing a diesel engine in an Abrams would likely draw the interest of many historians who recall the early controversy surrounding the selection of a turbine engine for the original XM1 tank design.
Features of the company project range from a new diesel power package to the incorporation of a new track design. One of the many interesting exhibits at the 2013 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition was the “Abrams ‘Dieselization’ Project” highlighted by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS).
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