Is there a successor to Abrams out there? I haven’t kept up with armor stuff in a long time. Granted the most I ever did in that area was a lowly 19K in a NG outfit.
“Is there a successor to Abrams out there?”
Oshkosh, AM General and Force Protection each spent 1.5 billion of their own money and developed force projection vehicles on 6 ton chassis. Those are the replacements.
The problem with the tank is its logistics and the difficulty of getting it to the battle unless you’re in Europe with roads or the desert. It was useless in Afghanistan. The tank’s voracious fuel appetite means that any offensive operation must have a long line of unarmored, unprotected tankers running behind it. With Hezbollah and Hamas getting RPV’s we can no longer be guaranteed absolute air supremacy. (They’re sometimes too small to see, but they could still, potentially, take out a tanker.)
Nope, no MBT like the Abrams, they wanna replace it with Strykers.