Medium tank (Red Alert 1)

The Medium tank (M1 Abrams) is a heavily armoured tracked battle vehicle, which forms the backbone of the Allies' armoured division in Second World War.

Background
Its single 90mm, and later 105mm, cannon allows it to be a match to enemy armour, but without sacrificing maneuverability. This tank come to play as the American agree to support the Allied struggling against Soviet invasion, much to the delight of the Allied and dismay to the Soviet. Their deployment infuriates Stalin so much that Mammoth tank development was rushed earlier, culminating in somewhat imperfect self repair capability of the Mammoth tank.

Game unit
The tank shares the same size with the Soviet Heavy tank, while their armour is somewhat comparable. Despite the heavy tank's advantage of producing more raw firepower than it Allied counterpart, the medium tank however has a significantly larger range.

Tiberium Universe
It was upgraded with a more powerful 120mm cannon and became the main battle tank of the Global Defense Initiative in the First Tiberium War.

Red Alert Universe
The medium tank was replaced by the Grizzly battle tank by the time of the Third World War.

Behind the scenes

 * While manual states the tank has a 105mm gun, the game data identifies it as a 90mm. The Heavy tank uses the 105mm in the game data.
 * Although the unit is portrayed by the M1 Abrams, it is downgraded in the game from a main battle tank to a medium type. Furthermore, its armament is also reduced to a 90mm gun, while the real Abrams uses either a 105mm or a 120mm gun. This downgrade is probably to make the tank more in-line with the older time period. The M1's European counterpart would likely be the Leopard 1.
 * Although the tank in the cut scenes seems to have 3 machine guns, there aren't any present in-game, for balancing.