Posted on 11/19/2019 6:49:44 AM PST by Lowell1775
The U.S. Armys newest tank in the summer of 2019 should enter service with the first large unit to use the type.
The Army in late 2017 accepted the very first M-1A2C Abrams tanks. Nearly two years later the service has enough of the new vehicles to equip an entire brigade.
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“Check Them Out: The U.S. Army’s Upgraded M-1A2C Abrams Are Coming”
Networked interface is what got the colonial fleet in trouble in Battlestar Galactica. Just sayin.
I hear that you can buy them at gun shows.
ATGM/RPG bait.
Israel is testing a new tank in which everyone sits before a computer screen, and the crew have a 360 degree view of the outside.
I think we need to start thinking about drone (unmanned) tanks, controlled from miles away (or even continents away)...
Over-reliance on technology and gadgets shouldn’t be a way of life.
Heck, I wonder if an EMP would render this system nonfunctional.
Armored coffin as my dad and a long ago tank commander said.
Only the digitally printed black ones with 100 clip bullets.
Our old preacher, Dr. Lett Had a PHD from Yale. He had retired from President of a Southern Baptist Seminary and was pastor of our little church in his retirement.
His Son, Dr, Phillip Lett, headed the design team at Chrysler who designed the M-1 Abrams. I saw a show in the History Channel about the Abrams and they interviewed him many times.
I know the Abrams is a bad ass armor weapon, but its also 1970s tech.
I’d like to read the article but The National Interest web site is awful. I get popups over the article text and pictures I can’t even close.
Too bad they’d rather get advertising hits at the expense of viewership.
“And the tank needs to be able to operate just as efficiently with a low tech solution.”
Like light enough so the crew can push them into battle?
All US tanks have been EMP-shielded since the 1950s. Electronics are heavily-shielded. Think nuclear detonation type shielding.
New versions of infantry-launched rockets make for a reduced tank role.
What’s more likely:
1. They’ll use them against drug cartels coming in from Mexico.
2. They’ll use them in US against citizen uprisings against the federal government.
Nothing is EMP proof. Only resistant to EMP.
And by implementing a complicated computer driven system, the tank and the crew are vulnerable when the system goes down.
The other side of it is that when it is working it is a lot more efficient and precise and more aware... while the computer system is running.
That is what the Trophy system is about. Killing incoming.
Developed by Rafael in Israel, it works......every time. Totally autonomous when active.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jzAupr044
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Here is the whole history. During Obama’s tenure, Obama was goingto close the Lima plant. PDJT saved it and also saved a very important resource for our military:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Army_Tank_Plant
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