M1A1 Abrams

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M1A1 Abrams
General information
Affiliation	HECU
Type	Main battle tank
Health	300 (turret)
Weapons	Cannon (60) Machine gun (10)
Crew	4
Game information
Entity name	N/A (brush) (the turret itself is named "func_breakable")

The M1A1 Abrams tank is an American Main Battle Tank equipped with a 120mm smoothbore cannon, and a coaxial machine turret and is encountered numerously throughout the Black Mesa compound. The Abrams is used as the primary attack and defense vehicle by the HECU during the Black Mesa Incident to combat against the invading Xen and Race X aliens.

Appearances

Half-Life

In Half-Life, the Abrams is first encountered in the chapter Surface Tension, providing fire support for a group of entrenched HECU soldiers. Another is stationed near the end of the chapter "Forget About Freeman!", blocking the entrance to the Black Mesa Central Complex. It differs from the first in a way that it also fires a machine gun. The tank is seen a third time near the end of the same chapter, this time with a mounted M2 machine gun on top, and the hatch open. It is unmanned, allowing the player to fire the 120mm cannon and the M2 at the incoming Vortigaunts and Alien Grunts.

Half-Life: Blue Shift

In Blue Shift, a single Abrams is encountered in the Freight Yard, in the chapter Captive Freight. It is placed on a train wagon, with a nearby truck conveniently stocked with rockets. It is not encountered for the rest of the game.

Tactics

• The Abrams is completely bulletproof; explosives or experimental weaponry (such as the Tau Cannon) will be needed to destroy one. Its body is also invulnerable to any of the player's weapons; only the turret will take damage. Since it keeps on firing at the player with its cannon and machine gun, the best approach is to take cover and shoot it with the RPG or the Tau Cannon's secondary attack. It will take three missiles to the turret to take it down.

• If the Abrams catches Barney in the truck in Blue Shift, it blows off its back, which can only be survived by crouching. This can be achieved with simple gunfire, unlike the Abrams tanks featured in Half-Life.

Trivia

• Surprisingly, the Abrams is vulnerable to the crowbar, and can be destroyed with a little over two dozen whacks to the turret. This is not a practical attack method however, as the tank's explosion upon destruction will kill the player.

Gallery

The Abrams in Surface Tension.

A destroyed Abrams in Sector F in "Forget About Freeman!".

An Abrams used by Freeman to destroy Alien Grunts in Sector F.

List of appearances

• Half-Life (First appearance)
• Half-Life: Blue Shift

See also

• Merkava, the cut Conscript main battle tank

External links

• M1 Abrams on Wikipedia