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[[File:U.S Army M1 Abrams 105 mm rounds laid out Desert Shield.jpg|thumb|right|105 mm [[APFSDS]] rounds are laid out in Operation Desert Shield, 1991]]
The main armament of the original model M1 and IPM1 was the M68A1 105 mm rifled tank gun firing a variety of [[Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot|APFSDS]], [[High-explosive anti-tank|HEAT]], high explosive, [[white phosphorus]] rounds and an [[anti-personnel]] (multiple [[flechette]]) round. This gun used a license-made tube of the British [[
Being non-combustible, the empty cartridge cases of the M1 variant accumulated on the turret floor after firing. After allowing some time to cool, they were ejected out of the hatch by the loader.{{sfn|Green|Stewart|2005|p=62-65}}
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