Repairable In The Field
Conte_Barracca says that the M1 was built from the “ground up to be repairable in the field.” He says that almost every part could be examined, including the ability to remove the subsystem and rear deck. If you needed to pull out the engine/transmission assembly, you could use an M88 recovery vehicle, which had a crane. Conte_Barracca says it was pretty easy to do this by just removing inputs and outputs by releasing the connections. He goes on to say the tank “was a marvel of engineering, to be honest.”