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There isn't much you can do about someone kicking off a 155mm shell UNDERNEATH the tank, where the armor is rather thin.

Smart top-attack munitions are going to eventually end the present-day tank's reign. To armor the top deck of an Abrams to the same standard as the frontal arc would take about six times as much armor. I don't know what the frontal armor package weight is, but a good guess is that you'd double the overall weight of the tank just slapping a thick layer of Chobham armor on the top deck.

Active defenses such as the Russian *Arena* active defence suite may buy some a few additional years for the Main Battle Tank, but even that approach doesn't offer protection from hypervelocity long-range tank killers like LOSAT.

LOSAT video here.

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My father spent some time designing futuristic anti-tank weapons. He used to say that he thought that in the future, the place not to be was in a tank.

As one Bill Mauldin's characters once said to a gentleman driving a tank, 'no thanks, a moving foxhole attracts the eye.'

It's worth remembering too that we recently lost a 10 million dollar helicopter to a 300 dollar rocket.