In past wars, small and well-armed ships, such as destroyer escorts, torpedo boats, and riverine craft have been a necessary complement to large comba.
The upgraded Abrams variants are capable of countering America’s great-power adversaries for years to come, which means the Army can take its time deciding what its future tank will look like.
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The high-tech platform will need to be able to take on enemy tanks while outnumbered.
The Army’s new Optionally Manned Tank, is a nascent project intended to propel the U.S. Army into a new generation of Combined Arms warfare. It will likely fire lasers, control drones, move at high speeds, and be able to destroy enemy helicopters. This Abrams-replacement tank will also be able to penetrate hostile armored formations and perform highly-lethal robotic operations while facing enemy fire.
The Army has begun work on a new “tank” to fight alongside and ultimately replace the Abrams tank, as part of an integrated effort to prepare the service for combat into the 2040s and beyond.
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This drone tank may replace the mighty Abrams, but will it still require a human commander to decide when to use lethal force?
When confronted with a large group of fast-approaching, unidentified enemy armored vehicles on attack, future Army tanks will need an ability to receive and organize incoming surveillance data, identify an enemy target and take the necessary defensive measures. Perhaps a forward-operating drone captures surveillance videos of the approaching attackers, transmits the images directly to a tank engineered with artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled computing able to instantly find moments of tactical relevance in the video. That program could then identify the threat and present organized information to human decision-makers in position to counterattack.