On January 14, 2022, Issam Toutate of Morocco World News reported that Morocco was fostering military equipment to face regional instability. Hence, Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces (FAR) would soon receive the latest generation of the American M1 Abrams tank: the FAR Maroc forum announced the upcoming receipt of “new batches of US Abrams A2 war machines, “modified to the specifications requested by Morocco.”
The north African country acquired 222 M1A1 Abrams tanks from the US for more than a billion dollars in 2012, then added 162 M1A2 Abrams tanks for $1.25 billion, Issam Toutate recalls. Morocco is now anticipating the latest purchase of the next generation of the American tank. As published by Army Recognition on July 29, 2016, Morocco already owns M1A1-SA (Situational Awareness) tanks, refurbished basic M1A1 versions that have been modernized to “reach the level equivalent to the most recent models currently available,” according to FAR Maroc forum.