Built in 1980 after a lengthy development process, the M1 Abrams replaced the M48 and M60 Pattons that had been in service with the United States since the 1950s. Designed to face Soviet tanks on the battlefield of Western Europe, it was equipped with the latest technologies available. With a hefty price tag and complex technologies, the M1 Abrams had its fair share of critics. Still it proved to be a successful tank during the wargames conducted by the US and NATO during the 1980s and eventually underwent several upgrades. Its final test would come in 1991 where it would face not Soviet forces in Europe but Iraqi ones on the desert of the Middle East as part of Operation Desert Storm. In that operation the upgraded M1A1 Abrams performed outstandingly against their Iraqi counterparts as they destroyed enormous numbers of Iraqi tanks at the cost of only a few of their own. This established the Abrams as one of the most powerful tanks in the world.

However, in 1998 it would meet its match as an enormous monster called Godzilla appeared from the Atlantic Ocean and began to devastate New York City. Called into action alongside other famous army vehicles from the Gulf War, the tanks attempted to take on Godzilla. Unfortunately, the monster proved too agile for their targeting systems and those few shots that managed to score did not seem to do any severe damage. Due to the fact that the urban environment of New York prevented them from maneuvering successfully, they were stationed at multiple roadblocks while the brunt of the fighting fell on the AH-64 Apache helicopters and the HMMWV which could navigate the cityscape of New York City successfully.