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If it's a small shoulder fired weapon, then my prediction that the tank era is over is true.

That's an easy prediction, but this appears to be the case of a high-velocity sabot. Meaning it was fired from a gun -- which in turn means that it wasn't man-portable.

BTW, there were several documented incidents in Gulf War II where a Bradley accidentally disabled (mobility kill) an M1 while "scratching it's back" with the 25 MM gun. Apparently the 25mm is sufficiently powerful to penetrate the exhaust louvers at the rear of the tank. Perhaps this was a similar shot since the shot placement could not have been better.

I wonder if it might have been a battlefield weapon test of someone totally unrelated. This theater would be the perfect place to test a man portable tank killer weapon. Others could be blamed for the act, and an army/contractor could battlefield test a weapon against an actual M1, which is pretty hard to get ahold of. It might have been the Russians, Chinese or French.

It had to be man portable. You will notice that there was no other armor in the area, or we would have found & destroyed it. Also nobody was caught, so someone "good" must have done it. Not a jihadi.

Maybe. MAybe not. I dunno.