For Multi-National Division-Baghdad tankers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division these equipment modifications are taking place in the form of the Tank Urban Survival Kit which ...

DETROIT, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- General Dynamics has received a $45 million contract to upgrade more than 500 Abrams tanks with the Tank Urban Survival Kit (TUSK) system. The TUSK is designed to better ...

May 16, 2007: Two years after it was first proposed, the U.S. Army is shipping TUSK (Tank Urban Survival Kit) to Iraq. The kit is a collection of additional features for M1 tanks, which make them more ...

The infantry phone, a frequent request from troops serving in Iraq, was incorporated in the 2006 rollout of the Tank Urban Survival Kit system, a series of Abrams modifications intended to improve ...

a Tank Urban Survival Kit (TUSK) was rushed into service with a number of upgrades to cope with potential ambushes from any direction. Many of those upgrades have been standardized in later Abrams ...

and improved the side and front armor of the tank with standard mounts for the Tank Urban Survival Kit set of add-on armor. It also added a tank-to-infantry phone for better coordination with a ...