Posted on 06/18/2022 12:12:53 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
General Dynamics Land Systems is teasing a next-generation Abrams main battle tank, the original variant of which entered U.S. military service in 1981. Details about this new version's capabilities are very limited at present, but there are clear indications that it will feature a slate of improved weapons, sensors, and other equipment over existing M1 tanks, including the possibility of some form of hybrid conventional-electric propulsion system.
A dedicated website for the Next Generation Abrams is now online. This same website teases a slate of other "next generation" designs from General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), including a new base configuration for the company's Stryker 8x8 wheeled armored vehicle and another planned variant in that family equipped with the Leonidas high-power microwave directed energy weapon, the latter of which you can read more about here. Various unmanned ground vehicle offerings from GLDS, including a variant of the TRX tracked design armed with dozens of loitering munitions, which is now called Razorback, and the company entry into the U.S. Army's Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (SMET) program, are featured on the site, as well.
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I’m sure the Taliban is licking their chops.
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Coming to a War Thunder game soon. /s kekw
I think the Ukraine War is showing us that tanks are basically done as offensive weapons. Too many drones and cheap missiles.
I strongly suspect that it uses GPS for navigation and Chinese chips to run their ‘green engine’.
So, no thanks - we’ll do better just buying from Russia.
Is the Stacey version of the tank?
Elon Musk is working on an Electric Tank well kind of like an M2 Bradley size thing ,LOL
There we go, fighting the last war again.
No matter what its powered with, before we give them a dime, fire a Stugna at it from 1.5 miles away.
If it shakes it off, will talk.
When the Uke war is over, Ukraine is once again going to be the cheap arms dealer for the world and every 3rd world shithole will have stugnas.
Lol!
Someone say Abrams....
Hasn’t one of the lessons of the Ukraine war been that tanks may be obsolete? They seem to be sitting ducks for aircraft and missiles.
Would that be like saying that infantry are obsolete given they seem to be sitting ducks for artillery, missiles, bullets, etc.? /s
Personally, tanks will never be obsolete, they will just morph to unmanned versions with better counter measures. Unmanned, coupled with advanced AI, is the future of warfare.
Anyone paying attention could not avoid coming to the same conclusion. At least until Russia and China ditch their auto-loader tanks that blow up when hit on their turret tops. Even then shaped charged shoulder fired missles from various sources will still be a deadly threat to even turret reinforced tanks everywhere.
What colors does it come in?
“Is the Stacey version of the tank?”
No that would be the German Maus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus
Tanks are obsolete.
Yep.
The future of warfare is swarms. Swarms of smart, flying shaped charges.
If we’re going to have swarms of tanks, or more precisely, large bore guns moving about on treads or wheels, they must be small, unmanned, expendable.
We no longer can send manned MBTs into front-line battle with a reasonably sophisticated adversary force. For the same reason we realized we could no longer send mounted calvary into battle over a century ago. Because the counterforce is too deadly.
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